Case report: Intrahepatic portal-hepatic venous shunts associated with a huge pelvic leiomyoma

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 158-162

  Aiba, Nobuyasu ^a   Morioka, Junichiro ^a   Miyazono, Takayoshi ^a   Okita, Hideaki ^a   Yata, Yutaka ^a   Okada, Kazuhiko ^a   Nambu, Shuji ^a   Watanabe, Akiharu ^a   Shimizu, Masashi ^a   Fujimura, Masaki ^a   Izumi, Rikuichi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOYAMA   (Japan)

Author keywords

Pelvic leiomyoma; Portal hepatic venous shunt; Portal systemic encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; PELVIS TUMOR; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYSTEMIC CIRCULATION; UTERUS MYOMA;

EID: 6844251614     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1998.tb00631.x     Document Type: Article

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