Application of self-expandable metallic stents in the inferior vena cava followed by portosystemic shunt in the treatment of primary Budd-Chiari syndrome complicated by caval obstruction

Surgery

Volumn 122, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 964-966

  Ceretti, Andrea Pisani ^b   Intra, Mattia ^b   Opocher, Enrico ^b   Santambrogio, Roberto ^b   Castrucci, Marco ^b   Spina, Gian Paolo ^a  

^a FATEBENEFRATELLI HOSPITAL   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CASE REPORT; CAVOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TECHNICAL AID;

EID: 0030712962     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(97)90339-1     Document Type: Article

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