Pancreatic adenocarcinoma presenting as sinistral portal hypertension: An unusual presentation of pancreatic cancer

Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 295-300

  Chang, Christopher Y ^a,b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; SPLEEN ANGIOGRAPHY; SPLENIC VEIN; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADENOCARCINOMA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HUMANS; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; SPLENIC VEIN; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0033364448     PISSN: 00440086     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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