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Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration for portal hypertension
Shozo Hirota1, Kaoru Kobayashi, Hiroaki Maeda
1Department of Radiology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan. hirota-s@hyo-med.ac.jp
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