The treatment of huge spontaneous portasystemic shunts in liver transplantation

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 714-715

  Hirata, Koichi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGIOGRAPHY; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EDITORIAL; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; GRAFT FAILURE; GRAFT SURVIVAL; HUMAN; LIGATION; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER PERFUSION; LIVER SINUSOID; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD PRESSURE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHEAR STRESS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION;

COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; LIGATION; LIVER; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PORTAL PRESSURE; PORTAL SYSTEM;

EID: 0041561092     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00535-003-1155-2     Document Type: Editorial

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