TY - GEN AU - Fathi Elsayed Fathi AU - Ali Hasan Farag , AU - El - Sayed Abdullah El - Sayed , AU - Taher Hasan Al - Zanati , TI - Band ligation compared with histoacryl injection of actively bleeding esophageal varices : : Aprospective randomized study / PY - 2006/// CY - Cairo : PB - Fathi Elsayed Fathi , KW - Actively Bleeding KW - Band Ligation KW - Esophageal Varices KW - Histoacryl injection N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty Of Medicine - Department Of Internal Medicine; Issued also as CD N2 - Bleeding esophageal varices is one of the major health problems in Egypt where schistosomiasis and hepatitis - C virus - related chronic liver diseases are prevalentIt results in great morbidity and mortality despite different therapeutic optionsEndoscopic injection of histoacryl is widely used to stop bleeding esophageal varices although it has many complicationsThe technique of EVL was developed to achieve arrest of bleeding in an efficacy similar to or better than injection therapy with fewer complications ER -