Anomalous Portal Venous Connection to the Suprahepatic Vena Cava: Sonographic Demonstration

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Journal Pediatr Radiol

Specialty Pediatrics

Date 1989 Jan 1

PMID 2689975

Citations 12

Authors

R D Bellah

J Hayek

R L Teele

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Abstract

The authors report a congenital portosystemic shunt which was detected with ultrasound in an infant with a fatal congenital hypertrophic cardiomyopathy. An aberration in primitive vitelline venous development may have contributed to the formation of this unusual vessel.

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