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Experimental and clinical studies on heater probe hemostasis for upper gastrointestinal bleeding with special
1Department of Gastroenterology, Kitasato University School of Medicine, Sagamihara, Japan.
Gastroenterologia Japonica
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
The hemostatic effects in patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding was evaluated using an endoscopic heater probe method and ethanol injection method. The heater probe method was effective in 94.4% of patients with few complications. The ethanol injection method was effective in 86.5% of patients. The heater probe method is considered to be an effective and safe technique in the treatment of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.