The significance of sinistral portal hypertension complicating chronic pancreatitis

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 179, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 129-133

  Sakorafas, George H ^a   Sarr, Michael G ^a   Farley, David R ^a   Farnell, Michael B ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHRONIC PANCREATITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PANCREAS RESECTION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC DISEASE; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATECTOMY; PANCREATITIS; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0034077805     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(00)00250-6     Document Type: Article

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