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Portal vein thrombosis due to Candida albicans associated with hepatic cirrhosis
G Torres1, L A Gil Grande, B Boixeda
1Gastroenterology Department, Hospital Ramón y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|March 1, 1993
Abstract:
A case of portal vein thrombosis due to Candida albicans in a patient with alcoholic hepatic cirrhosis in the absence of hepatocarcinoma is described. Infection is a known cause of portal vein thrombosis but thrombosis by Candida albicans has not to our knowledge been previously reported.