Adult portal hypertension secondary to posttraumatic extrahepatic portal vein thrombosis treated with rex shunt

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 260-263

  Vanderlan, Wesley B ^a,b   Bansal, Aditya ^a   Abouljoud, Marwan S ^a  

^a HENRY FORD HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; ALPHA 1 ANTITRYPSIN; ALPHA FETOPROTEIN; AMINOTRANSFERASE; ANTITHROMBIN III; BILIRUBIN; HEPATITIS A ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B CORE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIBODY; HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY; HOMOCYSTEINE; IRON; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S; VIRUS RNA;

ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; COLONOSCOPY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECCHYMOSIS; ESOPHAGOGASTRODUODENOSCOPY; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; IRON BINDING CAPACITY; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PARTIAL THROMBOPLASTIN TIME; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; POSTTRAUMATIC EXTRAHEPATIC PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ELECTROPHORESIS; PROTHROMBIN TIME; REX SHUNT; SEROLOGY; SHUNTING; SPLENOMEGALY; STOMACH VARICES; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, SURGICAL; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 67649148374     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181825b87     Document Type: Article

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