Idiopathic Splenic Vein Thrombosis Presenting as Splenic Infarction and Consequent Gastric Variceal Bleeding
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111 Received: Revised: Accepted: October 29, 2014 November 30, 2014 December 3, 2014 Corresponding Author: Duk-Kyung Kim, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Heart, Stroke and Vascular Institute, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine, 81 Irwon-ro, Gangnam-Gu, Seoul 135-710, Korea Tel: +82-2-3410-3419, Fax: +82-2-3410-3849, E-mail: [email protected] This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Case Report
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