Use of interposed polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE) graft in distal splenorenal shunt.
Two patients with massive upper gastrointestinal hemorrhages required transsplenic decompression of the esophageal varices, but because technical difficulties precluded tension-free anastomoses, interposition of PTFE grafts was used to solve these difficult situations.
Barman
A Addison
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Department of Surgery, Flushing Hospital and Medical Center, Flushing, New York.
Batiuchok
William
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Chaudry
Saqib S.
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Creedon
John J.
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