Portosystemic shunt on CT during arterial portography: Prevalence in patients with and without liver cirrhosis

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 80-86

  Terayama, Noboru ^a   Matsui, Osamu ^a   Kobayashi, Satoshi ^a   Sanada, Junichiro ^a   Gabata, Toshifumi ^a   Koda, Wataru ^a   Minami, Tetsuya ^a  

^a KANAZAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

CT; Liver cirrhosis; Portosystemic shunt; Retroperitoneum; Vein of Retzius

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTERIAL PORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ASCENDING COLON; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROPERITONEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOGRAPHY; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 37549050525     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-007-9196-2     Document Type: Review

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