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Large extrahepatic portosystemic shunt without portal hypertension

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Extrahepatic portosystemic shunt usually occurs secondary to severe portal hypertension, and it is rare to encounter it in patients without portal hypertension. We report herein a large extrahepatic portosystemic shunt between the left gastric vein and left renal vein without portal hypertension in which color Doppler sonography was useful not only for detection but evaluation of the effect of embolization.

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  1. First Department of Internal Medicine, Akita University School of Medicine, 1-1-1 Hondo, Akita, Japan, , , , , , JP

    K. Konno, H. Ishida, A. Uno, Y. Ohnami & O. Masamune

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Received: 11 April 1995/Accepted: 26 July 1995

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Konno, K., Ishida, H., Uno, A. et al. Large extrahepatic portosystemic shunt without portal hypertension . Abdom Imaging 22 , 79 –81 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002619900144

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