Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt for portal decompression before abdominal and retroperitoneal surgery in patients with severe portal hypertension [3]

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 489-490

  Grübel, Peter ^a   Pratt, Daniel S ^a   Elhelw, Tamer ^a  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; HUMAN; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INTRAOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; SIGMOID NEOPLASMS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0036211290     PISSN: 01920790     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004836-200204000-00026     Document Type: Letter

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