Partial splenic artery embolization for the management of hypersplenism in cirrhosis
Padmasani Venkat Ramanan1, Vidya Krishna
1Department of Pediatrics, Sri Ramachandra Medical College, Porur, Chennai, TN, India. docvidyakrishna@gmail.com.
Indian Pediatrics
|September 22, 2015
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