Congenital absence of the portal vein complicating hepatic tumors

Internal Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 194-198

  Takagaki, Kosuke ^b   Kodaira, Makoto ^b   Kuriyama, Shigeru ^b   Isogai, Yasushi ^b   Nogaki, Atsuhiro ^b   Ichikawa, Noritoshi ^b   Kajimura, Masayoshi ^a  

^a HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b University of Tokyo   (Japan)

Author keywords

Congenital absence of the portal vein; Hepatic tumor; Magnetic resonance angiography

Indexed keywords

ABDOMEN; ADOLESCENT; AGENESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHOGRAPHY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; JAPAN; LIVER CIRCULATION; LIVER HILUS; LIVER TUMOR; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALIGNANT TRANSFORMATION; PATIENT MONITORING; PORTAL VEIN; VEIN DILATATION;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; PORTAL VEIN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 1842845005     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.43.194     Document Type: Article

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