Treatment by splenectomy of a portal vein aneurysm in hepatosplenic schistosomiasis

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 261-264

  Mucenic, Marcos ^a,b   Rocha, Manoel De Souza ^a   Laudanna, Antônio Atílio ^a   Cançado, Eduardo Luiz Rachid ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Aneurysm, Portal hypertension; Portal vein; Schistosomiasis; Splenectomy

Indexed keywords

ANEURYSM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITIC LIVER DISEASE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; SCHISTOSOMA MANSONI; SPLEEN DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY;

ANEURYSM; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER DISEASES, PARASITIC; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; SCHISTOSOMIASIS MANSONI; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC DISEASES;

EID: 0036728822     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652002000500005     Document Type: Article

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