Background: Patients with cirrhosis in Child-Pugh class C or those in class B who have persistent bleeding at endoscopy are at high risk for treatment failure and a poor prognosis, even if they have undergone rescue treatment with a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS). This study ev
Percutaneous Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma in Patients with Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunts
✍ Scribed by I. Kaare Tesdal; Mats Wikström; Christa Flechtenmacher; Thomas Filser; Christoph Dueber
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2006
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 235 KB
- Volume
- 29
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1432-086X
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