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Original Article

Clinical characteristics of patients with liver cirrhosis and spontaneous portosystemic shunts detected by ultrasound in a tertiary care and transplantation centre

Michael LipinskiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Michael SaborowskiDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Benjamin HeidrichDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Dina AttiaDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Philipp KastenDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Michael P. MannsDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Michael GebelDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Andrej PotthoffDepartment of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Endocrinology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 1107-1113 | Received 30 Apr 2018, Accepted 05 Jul 2018, Published online: 29 Sep 2018

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