Technical innovation. Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt placement in a patient with absent right superior vena cava and persistent left superior vena cava

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 173, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 631-632

  Bahramipour, Phillip ^a   Abu Judeh, Hani H ^a   Miller, Jefferey ^a  

^a University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN MALFORMATION; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED;

HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0033190666     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.173.3.10470892     Document Type: Article

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