Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration (BRTO): Technique and intraprocedural imaging

Seminars in Interventional Radiology

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 303-313

  Sabri, Saher S ^a   Saad, Wael E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

BRTO; embolization; Gastric varices; liver cirrhosis; portal hypertension; portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

EID: 80051910716     PISSN: 07399529     EISSN: 10988963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0031-1284457     Document Type: Article

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