Cavernous transformation of the portal vein secondary to tumor thrombosis of hepatocellular carcinoma: Spiral CT visualization of the collateral vessels

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 385-393

  Song, Bin ^a   Min, Pengqui ^a   Oudkerk, M ^b   Zhou, Xiangping ^a   Ge, Yinghui ^a   Xu, Jun ^c   Chen, Weixia ^a   Chen, Xian ^a  

^a WEST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c Department of Radiology   (China)

Author keywords

Cavernous transformation; Collateral circulation; Computed tomography, spiral; Portal venous system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIRAL COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; TUMOR THROMBUS;

ADULT; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIATRIZOATE MEGLUMINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM CIRCULATING CELLS; PORTAL VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0033935952     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002610000057     Document Type: Article

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