Diminished Morbidity and Mortality in Portal Hypertension Surgery: Relocation in the Therapeutic Armamentarium

Journal of Gastrointestinal Surgery

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 499-502

  Mercado, Miguel Angel ^a   Orozco, Héctor ^a   Ramírez Cisneros, Francisco J ^a   Hinojosa, Carlos A ^a   Plata, Juan José ^a   Alvarez Tostado, Javier ^a  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS MÉDICAS Y NUTRICIÓN SALVADOR ZUBIRÁN   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Devascularization procedures; Portal hypertension surgery; Shunt surgery

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE;

ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MORBIDITY; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; SPLENORENAL SHUNT, SURGICAL;

EID: 0035468891     PISSN: 1091255X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1091-255X(01)80087-1     Document Type: Article

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