Small-Diameter Prosthetic H-Graft Portacaval Shunt: Definitive Therapy for Variceal Bleeding

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 585-591

  Rosemurgy, Alexander S ^a,b   Serafini, Francesco M ^a   Zervos, Emmanuel E ^a   Goode, Sarah E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Portacaval shunt; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL LIVER CIRRHOSIS; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL TRANSPLANTATION; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS, ALCOHOLIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0032196266     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(98)80061-9     Document Type: Article

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