Splenic venous hypertension presenting as variceal hemorrhage caused by portal hypertension

Journal of the American College of Surgeons

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-68

  Rozenblit, Grigory ^a   Del Guercio, Louis R M ^a   Savino, John ^a   Cerabona, Thomas ^a   Policastro, Anthony ^a   McPhee, Michael ^a  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; SPLENOPORTOGRAPHY; VARICOSIS; VEIN OCCLUSION;

ADULT; AGED; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPLENIC VEIN;

EID: 0030034943     PISSN: 10727515     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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