Technical considerations in covering and deploying a Wallstent endoprosthesis for the salvage of a failing transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 289-293

  Beheshti, Michael V ^a,d   Dolmatch, Bart L ^c   Jones, Michael P ^b  

^a WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE   (United States)

^b Wright Patterson Medical Center   (United States)

^c LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^d Radiology Consultants PC   (United States)

Author keywords

Shunts, portosystemic; Stents and prostheses

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTERY INTIMA PROLIFERATION; ARTICLE; BALLOON CATHETER; BLEEDING; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; CASE REPORT; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; HUMAN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIMARY BILIARY CIRRHOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0031931365     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1051-0443(98)70271-4     Document Type: Article

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