The role of preoperative TIPSS to facilitate curative gastric surgery.
The use of TIPSS to facilitate radical curative upper gastrointestinal surgery has not been reported. We describe a case in which curative gastric resection was performed for carcinoma of the stomach after a preoperative TIPSS and embolization of a large gastric varix in a patient with portal hypertension.
Norton
S A
SA
University Department of Surgery, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol BS2 8HW, UK.
Vickers
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Callaway
M P
MP
Alderson
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D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000601:surgery*; D000328:Adult; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D004932:Esophageal and Gastric Varices / Q000628:therapy; D005743:Gastrectomy; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D019168:Portasystemic Shunt, Transjugular Intrahepatic; D011300:Preoperative Care; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*