Ascending venous thrombosis from the middle hepatic vein to the left pulmonary artery as a complication of endoscopic Histoacryl sealing of a bile leak after blunt liver injury

A. Tomazic; V. Mlinaric; A. Pleskovic

doi:10.1055/s-2006-944598

Endoscopy, Table of Contents

Endoscopy 2006; 38: E8-E9
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-944598

Unusual cases and technical notes

Ascending venous thrombosis from the middle hepatic vein to the left pulmonary artery as a complication of endoscopic Histoacryl sealing of a bile leak after blunt liver injury

A. Tomazic¹ , V. Mlinaric² , A. Pleskovic¹

¹Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
²Department of Gastroenterology, University Medical Centre Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia

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2 Seewald S, Groth S, Sriram P V. et al . Endoscopic treatment of biliary leakage with n-butyl-2 cyanoacrylate. Gastrointest Endosc. 2002; 56 916-919

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