Abdominal tuberculosis involving hepatic hilar lymph nodes: A cause of portal vein thrombosis and portal hypertension

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 541-543

  Caroli Bosc, F X ^a   Conio, M ^a   Maes, B ^a   Chevallier, P ^a   Hastier, P ^a   Delmont, J P ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE NICE   (France)

Author keywords

Abdominal tuberculosis; Portal hypertension; Portal vein thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER HILUS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ANGIOGRAPHY; TUBERCULOSIS;

BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; JAUNDICE; MESENTERIC ARTERIES; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; TUBERCULOSIS, LYMPH NODE;

EID: 0030717704     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-199710000-00013     Document Type: Article

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