Congenital portacaval shunt: CT demonstration

Pediatric Radiology

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 28-30

  Badler, Ruth ^a   Price, Anita P ^a   Moy, Libia ^a   Katz, Douglas S ^a  

^a WINTHROP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Congenital portacaval shunt; CT findings; Literature review

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS; CYTOMEGALOVIRUS INFECTION; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HEPATIC VEIN; HEPATOSPLENOMEGALY; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MEDICAL LITERATURE; NEWBORN SCREENING; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOCAVAL SHUNT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; PORTAL VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0036935089     PISSN: 03010449     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00247-001-0590-6     Document Type: Article

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