title: Successful treatment of ruptured duodenal varices with dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy.
abstract: Duodenal varices are ectopic portosystemic shunts that do not tend to result in gastrointestinal bleeding. Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is an established treatment for gastric varices. We report a 60-year-old man with melena due to ruptured duodenal varices originating at an inferior pancreaticoduodenal vein; drainage was into a gonadal vein. His ruptured duodenal varices were successfully treated by dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology.
authors.forename: Osamu
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: Yutaka
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Nakasone
authors.forename: Toru
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Beppu
authors.forename: Hideo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Baba
authors.forename: Yasuyuki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yamashita
keywords: Ruptured duodenal varices; dual balloon-occluded embolotherapy; percutaneous transhepatic access