Laparoscopic disconnection of a huge paraumbilical vein shunt for portosystemic encephalopathy

Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy and Percutaneous Techniques

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 212-214

  Yamaguchi, Shohei ^a   Kawanaka, Hirofumi ^a   Konishi, Kozo ^a   Anegawa, Go ^a   Yoshida, Daisuke ^a   Kinjo, Nao ^a   Tomikawa, Morimasa ^a   Hashizume, Makoto ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic portosystemic encephalopathy (CPSE); Laparoscopic surgery; Liver cirrhosis; Paraumbilical vein; Portal hypertension; Portosystemic shunt (PSS)

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DISEASE COURSE; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPERAMMONEMIA; HYPERSPLENISM; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; REOPERATION; UMBILICUS;

EID: 34250824133     PISSN: 15304515     EISSN: 15344908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLE.0b013e31804b4630     Document Type: Article

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