Relationship between encephalopathy and portal vein-vena cava shunt: Value of computed tomography during arterial portography

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue 13, 2004, Pages 1939-1942

  Chu, Qian ^a   Li, Zhen ^a   Zhang, Su Ming ^a   Hu, Dao Yu ^a   Xiao, Ming ^a  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOPROMIDE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; CELIAC ARTERY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMBOLISM; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; STOMACH VARICES; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

EID: 3543071752     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v10.i13.1939     Document Type: Article

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