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Re: Creating a TIPS in a patient with difficult venous access: Use of a nonfunctioning denver shunt to access an occluded superior vena cava

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  1. Division of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Charles A. Owens, David Warner, Babak Yaghmai & Robert Dickstein

  2. Division of Transplant Surgery, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Enrico Benedetti

  3. Division of Gastroenterology and Liver Disease, University of Illinois Medical Center at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Thelma Wiley

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Owens, C.A., Warner, D., Yaghmai, B. et al. Re: Creating a TIPS in a patient with difficult venous access: Use of a nonfunctioning denver shunt to access an occluded superior vena cava. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 22, 262–263 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002709900381

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