Distal splenorenal shunt: Role, indications, and utility in the era of liver transplantation

Archives of Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 416-420

  Jenkins, Roger L ^a,b   Gedaly, Roberto ^a   Pomposelli, James J ^a   Pomfret, Elizabeth A ^a   Gordon, Fredric ^a   Lewis, W David ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPLENORENAL SHUNT, SURGICAL;

EID: 0033017101     PISSN: 00040010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archsurg.134.4.416     Document Type: Conference Paper

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