Hypogenesis of right hepatic lobe accompanied by portal hypertension: Case report and review of 31 Japanese cases

Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 836-842

  Inoue, Toshihiko ^a   Ito, Yuji ^a   Matsuzaki, Yasuyuki ^a   Okauchi, Yasuhiro ^a   Kondo, Hideki ^a   Horiuchi, Noriaki ^a   Nakao, Katsuyuki ^a   Iwata, Masayasu ^a  

^a Okawa General Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital anomaly; Hypogenesis of right hepatic lobe of liver; Imaging diagnosis; Portal hypertension

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL ANGIOGRAPHY; AGED; ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPLASIA; JAPAN; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER DISEASE; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LIVER SCINTISCANNING; MALE; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPLENOMEGALY;

EID: 0030780869     PISSN: 09441174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02936965     Document Type: Article

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