Extrahepatic portal biliopathy: Proposed etiology on the basis of anatomic and clinical features

Radiology

Volumn 258, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 146-153

  Walser, Eric M ^a   Runyan, Brandon R ^a   Heckman, Michael G ^a   Bridges, Mellena D ^a   Willingham, Darrin L ^a   Paz Fumagalli, Ricardo ^a   Nguyen, Justin H ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IOHEXOL;

ABDOMINAL SURGERY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT OBSTRUCTION; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CHOLANGIOGRAPHY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; FEMALE; FISHER EXACT TEST; HUMAN; HYPERCOAGULABILITY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MALE; MESENTERIC VEIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PANCREATITIS; PORTAL BILIOPATHY; PORTAL VEIN THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOLOGIST; RANK SUM TEST; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; SPLENECTOMY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BILIARY TRACT DISEASES; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, MAGNETIC RESONANCE; CHOLESTASIS, EXTRAHEPATIC; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DILATATION, PATHOLOGIC; ENDOSONOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION, PORTAL; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; MIDDLE AGED; PORTAL VEIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 78650609471     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.10090923     Document Type: Article

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