Gastric varices with gastrorenal shunt: Combined therapy using transjugular retrograde obliteration and partial splenic embolization

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 191, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 555-559

  Chikamori, Fumio ^a,b   Kuniyoshi, Nobutoshi ^a   Kawashima, Takahiko ^b   Takase, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a Kuniyoshi Hospital   (Japan)

^b Tsukuba Soai Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Gastric varices; Gastrorenal shunt; Partial splenic embolization; Transjugular retrograde obliteration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; GASTRORENAL SHUNT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; STOMACH VARICES; SURVIVAL RATE; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT;

BALLOON DILATION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROTHERAPY; SPLENIC VEIN; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 49149127727     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.07.3356     Document Type: Article

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