Gallbladder varices: Demonstration of direct communication to intrahepatic portal veins by color doppler sonography and CT during arterial portography

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 82-84

  Gabata, T ^a   Matsui, O ^a   Kadoya, M ^a   Yoshikawa, J ^a   Ueda, K ^a   Nobata, K ^a   Kawamori, Y ^a   Takashima, T ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Color Doppler sonography; CT during arterial portography (CTAP); Gallbladder varices; Portal venous thrombosis

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; VARICOSIS;

AGED; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOGRAPHY; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 0031015282     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002619900145     Document Type: Article

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