Polytetrafluoroethylene-covered nitinol stent-graft for transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt creation: 3-Year experience

Radiology

Volumn 231, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 820-830

  Rossi, Plinio ^a   Salvatori, Filippo M ^a   Fanelli, Fabrizio ^a   Bezzi, Mario ^a   Rossi, Michele ^a   Marcelli, Giulia ^a   Pepino, Daniela ^a   Riggio, Oliviero ^a   Passariello, Roberto ^a  

^a POLICLINICO UMBERTO I   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hypertension, portal; Liver, interventional procedures; Shunts, portosystemic; Stents and prostheses; Venography

Indexed keywords

NITINOL; POLITEF;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BUDD CHIARI SYNDROME; CHILD; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALLOYS; ASCITES; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC VEIN THROMBOSIS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RECURRENCE; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 2442664138     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.2313030349     Document Type: Article

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