Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt versus H-graft portacaval shunt in the management of bleeding varices: A cost-benefit analysis [5]

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 139-140

  Enne, Marcelo ^a   Pacheco Moreira, Lucio F ^a   Balbi, Elizabeth ^a   Martinho, José Manoel ^a  

^a HOSPITAL GERAL DE BONSUCESSO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL GRAFT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ENDOSCOPIC SCLEROTHERAPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHUNTING; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTACAVAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 30144431823     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000195192.30029.d6     Document Type: Letter

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