Portal hypertension resulting from splenic arteriovenous fistulae.
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Portal hypertension resulting from splenic arteriovenous fistulae.
Portal hypertension is commonly due to obstruction to portal blood flow either within the liver as in cirrhosis, or within the portal vein, as from thrombosis. In recent years, however, reports have multiplied of portal hypertension in the absence of both intrahepatic and extrahepatic obstruction (Rousselot, 1940; Whipple, 1945; Hallenbeck and Shocket, 1957; Tisdale, Klatstin, and Glenn, 1959; ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Gut
سال: 1965
ISSN: 0017-5749
DOI: 10.1136/gut.6.5.500