Correction of extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis by the mesenteric to left portal vein bypass

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 243, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 515-521

  Superina, Riccardo ^a,b   Bambini, Daniel A ^a   Lokar, Joan ^a   Rigsby, Cynthia ^a   Whitington, Peter F ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CHILDREN'S MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BYPASS SURGERY; CELIAC ARTERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER SIZE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTHROMBIN TIME; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN DIAMETER; VEIN GRAFT;

BLOOD PRESSURE; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; HYPERSPLENISM; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; MESENTERIC VEINS; PLATELET COUNT; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33645472283     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sla.0000205827.73706.97     Document Type: Article

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