Veins around the esophagus and the stomach: Do their calibrations provide a diagnostic clue for portal hypertensive gastropathy?

Clinical Imaging

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 22-24

  Erden, Ayse ^a   Idilman, Ramazan ^a   Erden, Ilhan ^a   Ozden, Ali ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Left gastric vein; MR Portography; Paraesophageal veins; Portal hypertension; Portal hypertensive gastropathy

Indexed keywords

CALIBRATION;

EXACT TESTS; LEFT GASTRIC VEIN; MEAN DIAMETERS; MR PORTOGRAPHY; PARAESOPHAGEAL VEINS; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; WHITNEY;

STATISTICAL TESTS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; CALIBRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PORTAL HYPERTENSION; PORTAL HYPERTENSIVE GASTROPATHY; PORTAL PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANK SUM TEST; STOMACH; STOMACH DISEASE; VEIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ESOPHAGUS; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; STOMACH DISEASES; VEINS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 58149293570     PISSN: 08997071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2008.06.023     Document Type: Article

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