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Ann Hepatol
; 11(4): 552-3, 2012.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-22700638
RESUMO
We present an unusual case of extensive avascular malformations (AVMs) causing non-cirrhotic portal hypertension. This phenomenon, though previously described, is a rare clinical entity which, in the setting of life threatening portal hypertension, may require vascular decompression either by surgery or a transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt.