Nonmalignant partial portal vein thrombosis in liver cirrhosis: To treat or not to treat?

Radiology

Volumn 266, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 994-995

  Qi, Xingshun ^a   Wang, Juan ^b   Chen, Hui ^a   Han, Guohong ^a   Fan, Daiming ^a  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Cell Treatment Center   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; DECOMPENSATED LIVER CIRRHOSIS; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE SEVERITY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LETTER; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVASCULARIZATION; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT;

FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84874310938     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.12122259     Document Type: Letter

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