Bleeding jejunal varices and portal thrombosis in a splenectomized patient with hereditary spherocytosis

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 373-377

  Bertolotti, Marco ^a   Loria, Paola ^b   Martella, Pietro ^b   Carulli, Lucia ^b   De Santis, Mario ^b   Carulli, Nicola ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MODENA AND REGGIO EMILIA   (Italy)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Hereditary spherocytosis; Jejunal varices; Portal thrombosis; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGOSCOPY; HEREDITARY SPHEROCYTOSIS; HUMAN; JEJUNUM MUCOSA; LIVER FUNCTION; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENECTOMY; STOMACH WALL; THROMBOCYTOSIS; VARICOSIS;

ADULT; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; JEJUNUM; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; PORTAL VEIN; SPHEROCYTOSIS, HEREDITARY; SPLENECTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VARICOSE VEINS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0034090315     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1005481114220     Document Type: Article

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