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Can an incomplete stent expansion modulate the effects of TIPS?

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  1. II Gastroenterologia, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

    Oliviero Riggio, Stefania Angeloni & Lorenzo Ridola

  2. Dipartimento di Scienze Radiologiche, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Rome, Italy

    Plinio Rossi

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Riggio, O., Angeloni, S., Ridola, L. et al. Can an incomplete stent expansion modulate the effects of TIPS?. J Gastroenterol 45, 346–347 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00535-009-0175-y

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