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Transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt: effect of bile leak on smooth muscle cell proliferation.

DOI

39

Citations

0

References

1998

Year

Gao‐Jun Teng, M A Bettmann, P. Jack Hoopes, Róbert Wágner, B H Park, Li Yang, Becki Baxter
Radiology

Abstract

These data suggest that the proliferative response in a TIPS is not primarily due to bile leak. Bile leak may promote thrombosis, but it appears to inhibit myointimal proliferation.