Spontaneous splenorenal shunt in a patient with liver cirrhosis and hypertrophic caudal lobe

Journal of Gastrointestinal and Liver Diseases

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 289-292

  Ćulafić, Dorde ^a,d   Perišić, Mirjana ^a   Vojinović Ćulafíc, Violeta ^b   Sagić, Dragan ^c   Kerkez, Mirko ^a  

^a CLINICAL CENTER OF SERBIA   (Serbia)

^b Railway Health Care Institute   (Macedonia)

^c Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases   (Macedonia)

^d NONE   (SCG)

Author keywords

Hypertrophic caudal lobe; Liver cirrhosis; Portal hypertension; Spontaneous splenorenal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HEMODYNAMICS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER BLOOD FLOW; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER HYPERTROPHY; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; REAL TIME ECHOGRAPHY; SPLENOMEGALY; SPLENOPORTOGRAPHY; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; VARICOSIS;

EID: 33749253886     PISSN: 18418724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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