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Vascular complication of a transjugular intrahepatic portacaval stent
J M Villemaire1, M P Dufresne, G Lebouthillier
1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Hôpital Saint-Luc, Montreal University, Canada.
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
|November 1, 1993
Abstract:
The percutaneous transjugular intrahepatic portacaval stent shunt is a nonsurgical approach to portosystemic shunting. The case of a large defect seen on a radiocolloid liver--spleen scan is attributed to a hepatic infarct related to the shunting procedure.