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GENERAL RULES FOR RECORDING ENDOSCOPIC FINDINGS OF ESOPHAGOGASTRIC VARICES (2ND EDITION)
- Source :
- Digestive Endoscopy. 22:1-9
- Publication Year :
- 2010
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2010.
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Abstract
- General rules for recording endoscopic findings of esophageal varices were initially proposed in 1980 and revised in 1991. These rules have widely been used in Japan and other countries. Recently, portal hypertensive gastropathy has been recognized as a distinct histological and functional entity. Endoscopic ultrasonography can clearly depict vascular structures around the esophageal wall in patients with portal hypertension. Owing to progress in medicine, we have updated and slightly modified the former rules. The revised rules are simpler and more straightforward than the former rules and include newly recognized findings of portal hypertensive gastropathy and a new classification for endoscopic ultrasonographic findings.
- Subjects :
- medicine.medical_specialty
Esophageal wall
business.industry
Gastroenterology
Esophagogastric varices
Portal hypertensive gastropathy
Endoscopic ultrasonography
medicine.disease
Esophageal varices
medicine
Portal hypertension
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
In patient
Radiology
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14431661 and 09155635
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Digestive Endoscopy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........1d889530bc3350417c027fde7ac4c3f9