Spontaneous closure of intrahepatic portovenous shunt in a noncirrhotic patient with recurrent encephalopathy

Digestive Diseases and Sciences

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 551-555

  Horiike, Norio ^a   Ninomiya, Tuneyuki ^a   Abe, Masanori ^a   Ninomiya, Tomoyuki ^a   Iuchi, Hideto ^a   Hirata, Mami ^b   Konishi, Ichiro ^a   Masumoto, Toshikazu ^a   Michitaka, Kojiro ^a   Onji, Morikazu ^a  

^a EHIME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Encephalopathy; Intrahepatic portovenous shunt; Noncirrhotic liver; Spontaneous closure

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LIVER; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; PORTAL SYSTEM; RECURRENCE; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037342234     PISSN: 01632116     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1022596901969     Document Type: Article

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