Enlarging splenic vein aneurysm associated with stagnation of splenic venous blood flow

American Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 91, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 385-387

  Shirohara, Hisashi ^a   Endo, Masaaki ^a   Sakai, Kenji ^a   Tabaru, Akinari ^a   Otsuki, Makoto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SPLEEN BLOOD FLOW; SPLENIC VEIN; VEIN ANEURYSM; VENOUS STASIS;

ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; BLOOD CIRCULATION; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; SPLENIC VEIN; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0030044844     PISSN: 00029270     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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