Extrahepatic Portal Vein Aneurysm

Portal vein aneurysms are rare vascular abnormalities, many of which are incidentally discovered on routine imaging studies. The etiology of portal venous aneurysms is poorly understood, and the management of these lesions is debatable. We report the case of a 61-year-old woman with extrahepatic por...

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Autores principales: Gaba, Ron C., Hardman, Julian D., Bobra, Sonia J.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4897974/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27307811
http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v4i2.291
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description Portal vein aneurysms are rare vascular abnormalities, many of which are incidentally discovered on routine imaging studies. The etiology of portal venous aneurysms is poorly understood, and the management of these lesions is debatable. We report the case of a 61-year-old woman with extrahepatic portal vein aneurysm. We review the nature and significance of this abnormality and discuss appropriate clinical, imaging, and treatment approaches.
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spelling pubmed-48979742016-06-15 Extrahepatic Portal Vein Aneurysm Gaba, Ron C. Hardman, Julian D. Bobra, Sonia J. Radiol Case Rep Article Portal vein aneurysms are rare vascular abnormalities, many of which are incidentally discovered on routine imaging studies. The etiology of portal venous aneurysms is poorly understood, and the management of these lesions is debatable. We report the case of a 61-year-old woman with extrahepatic portal vein aneurysm. We review the nature and significance of this abnormality and discuss appropriate clinical, imaging, and treatment approaches. Elsevier 2016-01-05 /pmc/articles/PMC4897974/ /pubmed/27307811 http://dx.doi.org/10.2484/rcr.v4i2.291 Text en © 2009 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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title_short Extrahepatic Portal Vein Aneurysm
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