Portal vein variations: Clinical implications and frequencies in routine abdominal multidetector CT

Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 75-80

  Koç, Zafer ^a   Oǧuzkurt, Levent ^a   Ulusan, Şerife ^a  

^a BASKENT UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Multi detector computed tomography; Portal vein; variations

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; OBSERVER VARIATION; PORTAL VEIN; PREVALENCE; RADIOLOGIST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ABNORMALITIES; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSTIC TESTS, ROUTINE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PREVALENCE; RADIOGRAPHY, ABDOMINAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TURKEY;

EID: 34250022532     PISSN: 13053825     EISSN: 13053612     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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