Isolated Splenic Vein Thrombosis: 8-Year-Old Boy with Massive Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding and Hypersplenism

• Main Authors: Mohammad Ali Kiani (Author), Arash Forouzan (Author), Kambiz Masoumi (Author), Behnaz Mazdaee (Author), Mohammad Bahadoram (Author), Hamid Reza Kianifar (Author), Hassan Ravari (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We present an 8-year-old boy who was referred to our center with the complaint of upper gastrointestinal bleeding and was diagnosed with hypersplenism and progressive esophageal varices. Performing a computerized tomography (CT) scan, we discovered a suspicious finding in the venography phase in fav...