Spontaneous intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt in a patient with cirrhosis: Diagnosis by combined color Doppler and pulsed Doppler ultrasonography

Liver

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 307-310

  Grattagliano, Anna ^a   Rapaccini, Gian Ludovico ^a   Camaldo, Giuseppe ^b   Pompili, Maurizio ^a   Marino, Patrizia ^a   Mastromatteo, Angela Maria ^a   Cotroneo, Antonio Raffaele ^a   Gasbarrini, Giovanni ^a  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Lauria Hospital   (Italy)

Author keywords

Color Doppler flow imaging; Doppler studies; Portosystemic shunts; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN BLOOD FLOW; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS;

EID: 0031452279     PISSN: 01069543     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0676.1997.tb01037.x     Document Type: Article

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