HPB Surgery
Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 152195, 6 pages
doi:10.1155/2009/152195
Case Report

Right Porto-Ovarian H-Shunt for the Surgical Treatment of Symptomatic Portal Biliopathy: A Case Report and Literature Review

Konstantinos Vasiliadis,1 Guido Engelmann,2 Peter Sauer,3 Jürgen Weitz,1 and Jan Schmidt1

1Department of Surgery, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
2Department of Paediatrics, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany
3Department of Gastroenterology, University of Heidelberg, Im Neuenheimer Feld 110, 69120 Heidelberg, Germany

Received 5 February 2009; Accepted 8 May 2009

Academic Editor: Jakob Izbicki

Copyright © 2009 Konstantinos Vasiliadis et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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