Intrahepatic venovenous shunting to an accessory hepatic vein after Fontan type operation

Annals of Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1494-1496

  Yoshimura, Naoki ^a   Yamaguchi, Masahiro ^a   Oshima, Yoshihiro ^a   Tei, Teruo ^a   Ogawa, Kyoichi ^a  

^a KOBE CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANASTOMOSIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; BLOOD VESSEL SHUNT; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CYANOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEPATIC VEIN; HETEROTAXY SYNDROME; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOTOMY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN LIGATION; VEIN MALFORMATION;

CHILD; CYANOSIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FONTAN PROCEDURE; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER; MALE; OXYGEN; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TRICUSPID VALVE INSUFFICIENCY; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 0033059274     PISSN: 00034975     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0003-4975(99)00236-2     Document Type: Article

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