Year 2019 / Volume 111 / Number 8
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Spontaneous splenoazygos shunt in a patient with portal hypertension: an exceedingly rare occurrence

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DOI: 10.17235/reed.2019.6091/2018

Filipa Figueiredo, João Costa, Raquel Lameiras, Miguel Ramalho,

Abstract
We present a case of a spontaneous splenoazygos shunt in a patient with liver cirrhosis and portal hypertension, detected by abdominal magnetic resonance imaging. Multiplanar reconstruction demonstrated communication of the splenic vein with the azygos vein that was dilated with a winding course along the mediastinum. This pathway for decompression of the portal vein is an exceedingly rare occurrence.
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Figueiredo F, Costa J, Lameiras R, Ramalho M. Spontaneous splenoazygos shunt in a patient with portal hypertension: an exceedingly rare occurrence. 6091/2018


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Publication history

Received: 04/12/2018

Accepted: 12/12/2018

Online First: 18/07/2019

Published: 31/07/2019

Article Online First time: 226 days

Article editing time: 239 days


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