Volume 3, Number 5, September 2013 (Special Issue on )

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Management of acute esophageal variceal bleeding by endoscopic sclerotherapy in technically difficult endoscopic band ligation cases—A population based cohort study

Gamal E. Esmat, Iman M. Hamza, Bahaa E. Abbas, Ahmed M. Hashem, Hossam S. Ghoneim

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DOI: 10.4236/ojgas.2013.35048  4,231 Downloads  6,464 Views   Citations

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Incidence of Clostridium difficile-associated diarrhea in patients using proton pump inhibitors: A Japanese study

Takatoshi Kitazawa, Yusuke Yoshino, Ichiro Koga, Akari Isono, Takatsugu Yamamoto, Yasushi Kuyama, Yasuo Ota

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DOI: 10.4236/ojgas.2013.35047  3,261 Downloads  4,820 Views   Citations

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Diphenyl methane laxatives do not induce electrolyte imbalance

Stefan Müller-Lissner

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DOI: 10.4236/ojgas.2013.35046  4,617 Downloads  6,287 Views   Citations

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Primary Extra-Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor (GIST) arising from mesentery of small bowel and presenting as abdominal mass: A rare entity

Alok Kumar Tiwari, Anil Kumar Choudhary, Hemant Khowal, Poras Chaudhary, Mohinder P. Arora

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DOI: 10.4236/ojgas.2013.35045  4,316 Downloads  7,184 Views   Citations

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Prognostic factors after palliative resection for colorectal cancer with incurable synchronous liver metastasis

Kiichi Sugimoto, Kazuhiro Sakamoto, Yuichi Tomiki, Michitoshi Goto, Yutaka Kojima, Hiromitsu Komiyama, Makoto Takahashi, Yukihiro Yaginuma, Shun Ishiyama, Koichiro Niwa, Kiichi Nagayasu, Shingo Ito, Masaya Kawai, Kazuhiro Takehara, Yoshihiko Tashiro, Shinya Munakata

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DOI: 10.4236/ojgas.2013.35044  2,784 Downloads  4,219 Views   Citations

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Enhanced aquaporin 8 expression after subtotal colectomy in rat

Masato Nakano, Yu Koyama, Hitoshi Nogami, Tadashi Yamamoto, Toshifumi Wakai

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DOI: 10.4236/ojgas.2013.35043  2,988 Downloads  4,397 Views   Citations

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