Does the direction of portal blood flow determine outcome with small- diameter prosthetic H-graft portacaval shunt?

Surgery

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 95-101

  Rosemurgy II, Alexander S ^a,b   Norman, James G ^a   Goode, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b TAMPA GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; END TO SIDE ANASTOMOSIS; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0031027866     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(97)90188-4     Document Type: Article

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