Cavernous vessels around a patent portal trunk in the liver hilum

Abdominal Imaging

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 422-430

  Qi, Xingshun ^a   Han, Guohong ^a   Yin, Zhanxin ^a   He, Chuangye ^a   Guo, Wengang ^a   Niu, Jing ^a   Wu, Kaichu ^a,b   Fan, Daiming ^a,b  

^a FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b FOURTH MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cavernous transformation of the portal vein; Computed tomography; Extrahepatic portal vein obstruction; Portography

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; BILIRUBIN; CREATININE; GAMMA GLUTAMYLTRANSFERASE;

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASCITES; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CAVERNOUS MALFORMATION OF THE PORTAL VEIN; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOSCOPY; ESOPHAGUS VARICES BLEEDING; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATOMEGALY; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; LIVER; LIVER HILUM; MALE; PORTAL VEIN OBSTRUCTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; SPLENECTOMY; SPLENOMEGALY; THROMBOCYTE COUNT; TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC PORTOSYSTEMIC SHUNT; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND; VEIN MALFORMATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER FUNCTION TESTS; MALE; PORTAL VEIN; PORTOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED;

EID: 84863720698     PISSN: 09428925     EISSN: 14320509     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00261-011-9779-9     Document Type: Article

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