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Research Article| Volume 57, ISSUE 1, P123-130, January 1965

Interim experience with a controlled study of prophylactic portacaval shunt

  • Allan D. Callow
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Surgery, Pratt Clinic-New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group Boston, Mass., USA
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  • John B. Lloyd
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Surgery, Pratt Clinic-New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Albert Ishihara
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Surgery, Pratt Clinic-New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Elmo Ponsdomenech
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Surgery, Pratt Clinic-New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Edward T. O'Hara
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Surgery, Pratt Clinic-New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Thomas C. Chalmers
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Surgery, Pratt Clinic-New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group Boston, Mass., USA
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  • Arthur J. Garceau
    Affiliations
    From the Department of Surgery, Pratt Clinic-New England Center Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Lemuel Shattuck Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Veterans Administration Hospital, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Harvard University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass., USA

    From the Department of Surgery, Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group Boston, Mass., USA
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DOI:https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:0039606065901935
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      Footnotes

      ☆Supported in part by United States Public Health Service Grants AM-03244-05 and FR-5184-02.

      ☆☆Presented at the Eighteenth Annual Meeting of the Society for Vascular Surgery, San Francisco, Calif., June 21, 1964.

      ★The following members of the Boston Inter-Hospital Liver Group have contributed to the collection of data for this report: Drs. Charles S. Davidson, Robert M. Donaldson, Jr., George F. Grady, Paul F. Gryska, Franz J. Ingelfinger, Kurt J. Isselbacher, William V. McDermott, Jr., Hugo Muench, James F. Patterson, George W. B. Starkey, Thomas A. Warthin, Norman Zamcheck, and Louis Zetzel.

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      DOI: https://doi.org/10.5555/uri:pii:0039606065901935

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      © 1965 Published by Elsevier Inc.

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