Clinical significance of patent paraumbilical vein in patients with liver cirrhosis

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 9, 2000, Pages 1861-1864

  Gupta, D ^a   Chawla, Y K ^a   Dhiman, R K ^a   Suri, S ^a   Dilawari, J B ^a  

^a POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Hepatic encephalopathy; Paraumbilical vein

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; UMBILICAL VEIN; VEIN DIAMETER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CHILD; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; PROGNOSIS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, DUPLEX; VEINS;

EID: 0033791428     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005505522151     Document Type: Article

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