[Portal hypertension. Choice of therapy for children under 10 years: shunt or palliative surgery?].
Over the last 17 years, 65 cases of portal hypertension have been treated. Major surgery (shunt or disconnection) was performed in 22 children, 7 of these operations being conducted over the last two years by employing two recently developed techniques (Warren's selective distal splenorenal shunt, and Sugiura's wide azygoportal disconnection).
D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care; D011170:Portasystemic Shunt, Surgical; D013164:Splenorenal Shunt, Surgical
Hypertension portale. Choix de l'indication thérapeutique chez l'enfant de moins de 10 ans: dérivation ou palliatif.