Surgical management of acute variceal he
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Layton F. Rikkers; Gongliang Jin
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Article
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1994
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Springer
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English
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The advent of more effective nonoperative therapies, mainly endoscopic variceal sclerosis, has decreased the need for emergency surgery for control of acute variceal hemorrhage. In centers where it is available, nonoperative portal decompression by transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunting (T