Left-upper-quadrant devascularization for 'unshuntable' portal hypertension

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 131, Issue 8, 1996, Pages 834-839

  Caps, Michael T ^a   Helton, W Scott ^a   Johansen, Kaj ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b St John Providence Health System   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEVASCULARIZATION; ESOPHAGUS RESECTION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTRECTOMY; HUMAN; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SPLENECTOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0029785904     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.1996.01430200044008     Document Type: Conference Paper

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