Experience with the rex shunt (mesenterico-left portal bypass) in children with extrahepatic portal hypertension

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 13-19

  Bambini, Daniel A ^a   Superina, Riccardo ^a,b   Almond, P Stephen ^a   Whitington, Peter F ^a   Alonso, Estella ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Extrahepatic portal hypertension; Mesenterico left portal vein bypass; Portal vein thrombosis; Rex shunt

Indexed keywords

ASCITES; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFERENCE PAPER; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HISTOPLASMOSIS; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVING DONOR; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH VARICES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; VEIN BYPASS;

EID: 0033980128     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-3468(00)80005-6     Document Type: Conference Paper

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