Stent graft closure of a high flow splenorenal shunt after liver transplantation

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 312-314

  Litvin, Sergey ^a   Atar, Eli ^a   Knizhnik, Michael ^a   Bruckheimer, Elchanan ^b   Belenky, Alexander ^a  

^a RABIN MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b SCHNEIDER CHILDREN S MEDICAL CENTER OF ISRAEL   (Israel)

Author keywords

Interventional radiology; Liver transplantation; Splenorenal shunt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARE METAL STENT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER DYSFUNCTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PORTAL VEIN; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; SPLENIC VEIN; SPLENORENAL SHUNT; STENT; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC VEIN; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENA CAVA FILTER;

ADULT; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; RENAL VEINS; SPLENIC VEIN; SPLENOMEGALY; SPLENORENAL SHUNT, SURGICAL; STENTS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VENA CAVA FILTERS;

EID: 78650152263     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4261/1305-3825.DIR.2398-08.1     Document Type: Article

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