Splenic artery embolization for the treatment of bleeding gastric varices secondary to splenic vein thrombosis

Annals of Vascular Surgery

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 737.e7-737.e11

  Stone, Patrick A ^a   Phang, David ^a   Richmond, Bryan ^a   Gill, Gurpreet ^a   Campbell, John E ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLEEDING GASTRIC VARICES; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOLLOW UP; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; GASTROSTOMY; HERNIORRHAPHY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS PSEUDOCYST; PATIENT HISTORY OF CHOLECYSTECTOMY; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLEEN ARTERY; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENIC VEIN; SPLENOMEGALY; STOMACH VARICES; UPPER GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING; VASCULAR SURGERY; VEIN BLOOD FLOW; VEIN DILATATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS; COMPLICATION; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; PROCEDURES; RADIOGRAPHY; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SPLENIC ARTERY; SPLENIC VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 84896982592     PISSN: 08905096     EISSN: 16155947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.avsg.2013.07.014     Document Type: Article

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