Occlusive portal vein thrombosis as a new marker of decompensated cirrhosis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 522-526

  Qi, Xingshun ^a   Bai, Ming ^a   Yang, Zhiping ^a   Yuan, Shanshan ^a   Zhang, Cheng ^a   Han, Guohong ^a   Fan, Daiming ^a,b  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DISEASE MARKER; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PROGNOSIS; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT;

HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; PORTAL VEIN; PROGNOSIS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 79952312855     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2010.12.007     Document Type: Article

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