Interventional treatment should be incorporated in the algorithm for the management of patients with portal vein thrombosis

Hepatology

Volumn 48, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1352-1353

  Senzolo, Marco ^a   Patch, David ^b   Miotto, Diego ^a   Feronato, Cecilia ^a   Cholongitas, Evangelos ^b   Burroughs, Andrew K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b The Royal Free Sheila Sherlock Liver Centre   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BILE DUCT DISEASE; CHOLANGITIS; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LETTER; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT SELECTION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION; METHODOLOGY; NOTE; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS;

ALGORITHMS; HUMANS; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; RADIOLOGY, INTERVENTIONAL; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 54449097909     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22503     Document Type: Letter

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