Symptomatic intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt: Angiographic findings and transcatheter embolization with an alternative approach

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 181, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-78

  Tanoue, Shuichi ^a   Kiyosue, Hiro ^a   Komatsu, Eiji ^b   Hori, Yuzo ^c   Maeda, Tohru ^b   Mori, Hiromu ^a  

^a OITA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OITA PREFECTURAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^c Nagatomi Neurosurgical Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLON OBSTRUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; ILEUS; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TECHNIQUE; THROMBOSIS; VASCULAR ACCESS;

EID: 0037973661     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.181.1.1810071     Document Type: Article

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