Interventional procedures involving portal vein circulation: A review

Acta Radiologica

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 145-156

  Cwikiel W ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HOSPITALS   (United States)

^b 4301 MSRB III 1500 W Med Ctr D   (United States)

Author keywords

Cirrhosis; Dilatation; Interventional; Mesentery; Occlusion; Portal vein; Recanalization; Stents; Thrombosis; Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt; Vascular

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS; DISEASES; PATIENT TREATMENT; PH EFFECTS;

CIRRHOSIS; DILATATION; INTERVENTIONAL; MESENTERY; OCCLUSION; PORTAL VEIN; RECANALIZATION; STENTS; THROMBOSIS; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT;

RADIOLOGY;

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; VASCULAR DISEASE;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 33644663430     PISSN: 02841851     EISSN: 16000455     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02841850500466567     Document Type: Article

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