Seminars in Pediatric Surgery
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 216-225 , November 2005

Recent concepts regarding extra-hepatic portal hypertension

  • Frédéric Gauthier, MD

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    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests and correspondence: Frédéric Gauthier, MD, Service de Chirurgie Pédiatrique, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Bicêtre, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris, Faculté de Médecine Paris Sud, 78 rue du Général Leclerc, 94270 Le Kremlin Bicétre, France

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doi: 10.1053/j.sempedsurg.2005.06.004

Seminars in Pediatric Surgery
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 216-225 , November 2005

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