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Side‐to‐End Portacaval Shunt: A Way out of Difficulty
Author(s) -
Little J. M.
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1969.tb05583.x
Subject(s) - medicine , portacaval shunt , shunt (medical) , portal vein , caudate lobe , surgery , portal hypertension , inferior vena cava , general surgery , hepatectomy , cirrhosis , resection
A case is described in which massive hypertrophy of the caudate lobe of the liver made a conventional porta‐caval shunt impossible. The end of the divided vena cava was anastomosed to the side of the portal vein. This technique may provide one answer to a difficult technical problem.