Medical Hypotheses
Volume 73, Issue 5 , Pages 640-650, November 2009

Percutaneously adjustable portal vein banding device could prevent post-operative liver failure – Artificial control of portal venous flow is the key to a new therapeutic world

Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery and Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Kyoto University, 54 Shogoin, Kawaracho, Sakyoku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan

Received 4 August 2009; accepted 9 August 2009. published online 07 September 2009.

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PII: S0306-9877(09)00560-X

doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2009.08.018

Medical Hypotheses
Volume 73, Issue 5 , Pages 640-650, November 2009

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