Expanding indications for TIPSS: portal decompression before elective oncologic gastric surgery in cirrhotic patients

J Clin Gastroenterol. 2005 Nov-Dec;39(10):921-3. doi: 10.1097/01.mcg.0000180798.41704.43.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / surgery
  • Elective Surgical Procedures*
  • Esophageal and Gastric Varices / surgery
  • Gastrectomy*
  • Humans
  • Hypertension, Portal / etiology
  • Hypertension, Portal / prevention & control*
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / complications
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / pathology
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Alcoholic / surgery*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Portasystemic Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic*
  • Preoperative Care
  • Stomach Neoplasms / pathology
  • Stomach Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Stomach Ulcer / surgery