Surgical treatment of portal hypertension

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 911-925

  Henderson, J Michael ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Decompressive shunts; Devascularization procedures; Liver transplantation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHEMOTHERAPY; COMPLICATION; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DEVASCULARIZATION; ENDOSCOPIC THERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SURGEON; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0034505929     PISSN: 15216918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/bega.2000.0138     Document Type: Article

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