Balloon-Occluded Retrograde Transvenous Obliteration (BRTO): Preprocedural evaluation and imaging

Seminars in Interventional Radiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 288-295

  Al Osaimi, Abdullah M S ^a   Sabri, Saher S ^a   Caldwell, Stephen H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

BRTO; Gastric varices; liver cirrhosis; portal hypertension; splenorenal shunt; TIPS

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051740566     PISSN: 07399529     EISSN: 10988963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1284455     Document Type: Article

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