RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Spontaneous (natural) splenoadrenorenal shunts in extrahepatic portal venous obstruction: a series of 20 cases.
JF Gut
JO Gut
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and British Society of Gastroenterology
SP 1198
OP 1200
DO 10.1136/gut.28.10.1198
VO 28
IS 10
A1 J B Dilawari
A1 Y K Chawla
YR 1987
UL http://gut.bmj.com/content/28/10/1198.abstract
AB Large spontaneous (natural) splenoadrenorenal shunt on splenoportovenography was seen in 20 (9.4%) of the 213 patients with extrahepatic portal venous obstruction. Significantly less number of patients had a bleed and oesophageal varices in this group compared with patients having no spontaneous shunt. There was, however, no significant difference in the age, splenic size, splenic pulp pressure, anaemia, thrombocytopenia and leucopenia between the two groups.