Extrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunt without Portal Hypertension

Internal Medicine

Volumn 36, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 886-889

  Nishimoto, Yasuhiro ^a   Hoshino, Hiroshi ^a,b   Sato, Shinji ^a   Oguri, Akihiko ^a   Yamada, Masahiko ^a   Nishimura, Daisaku ^a   Katada, Naoyuki ^a   Sano, Hiroshi ^a   Kato, Katsumoto ^a  

^a Kamo Hospital   (Japan)

^b Kamo Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hepatic encephalopathy; Inferior mesenteric vein (IMV); Inferior vena cava (IVC)

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MESENTERIC VEIN; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MESENTERIC VEINS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0031307767     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.36.886     Document Type: Article

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