A surgical solution to extrahepatic portal thrombosis and portal cavernoma: The splanchnic-intrahepatic portal bypass

Digestive and Liver Disease

Volumn 35, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 903-906

  Audet, M ^a   Baiocchi, G L ^b   Portolani, N ^b   Becmeur, F ^a   Cag, M ^a   Giulini, S M ^b   Cinqualbre, J ^a   Jaeck, D ^a   Wolf, Ph ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DE HAUTEPIERRE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extrahepatic portal hypertension; Portal vein thrombosis; Rex shunt

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT ATRESIA; BYPASS SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GRAFT PATENCY; HUMAN; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; PORTAL CAVERNOMA; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SPLANCHNIC BLOOD FLOW; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN GRAFT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; ECHOGRAPHY; LIVER; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; PORTAL VEIN; SPLANCHNIC CIRCULATION; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 2142651644     PISSN: 15908658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dld.2003.01.001     Document Type: Article

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