A prospective randomized controlled clinical trial comparing the effects of somatostatin and vasopressin for control of acute variceal bleeding in the patients with liver cirrhosis.

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Published in Korean J Intern Med on September 01, 2003

Authors

Heon Young Lee1, Heon Ju Lee, Seung Min Lee, Jun Hwan Kim, Soon Wook Kweon, Byung Seok Lee, Nam Jae Kim

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University College of Medicine, Daejeon, Korea. leehy@hanbat.chungnam.ac.kr

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