Cirrhotics with variceal hemorrhage: the importance of the time interval between admission and the start of analysis for survival and rebleeding rates.

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Published in Hepatology on June 01, 1989

Authors

A K Burroughs1, G Mezzanotte, A Phillips, P A McCormick, N McIntyre

Author Affiliations

1: Academic Department of Medicine, Royal Free Hospital, London, United Kingdom.

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