Congenital absence of the portal vein: Clinical and radiologic findings

Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 681-686

  Niwa, Tetsu ^a,b   Aida, Noriko ^a   Tachibana, Katsuhiko ^a   Shinkai, Masato ^a   Ohhama, Youkatsu ^a   Fujita, Kazutoshi ^a   Abe, Aya ^a   Lee, Jin ^a   Ozawa, Yukihiko ^a   Inoue, Tomio ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KANAGAWA CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Brain; Computed tomography (CT); Congenital abnormality; Congenital absence; Hepatocerebral degeneration; Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Portal vein; Portosystemic shunt

Indexed keywords

COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER;

CLINICAL MANIFESTATION; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONGENITAL ABNORMALITY; CONGENITAL ABSENCE; HEPATOCEREBRAL DEGENERATION; INVASIVE TECHNIQUES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEINS; PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; ULTRASOUND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY;

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING;

ARTICLE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; LIVER DISEASE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PORTAL VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ULTRASOUND; VEIN MALFORMATION;

EID: 0036760523     PISSN: 03638715     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00004728-200209000-00003     Document Type: Article

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