Clinical significance of azygos vein enlargement: Radiographic recognition and etiologic analysis

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 236-241

  Shin, Myung Soo ^a   Ho, Kang Jey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Azygos vein enlargements; Congenital anomalies; Congestive heart failure; CT; Etiologies; Thrombosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGENESIS; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; FEMALE; HEART ATRIUM THROMBOSIS; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MALE; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VEIN MALFORMATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

AZYGOS VEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 0032763796     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-7071(99)00141-2     Document Type: Article

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