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- Title
Spontaneous rupture and thrombosis of an intrahepatic portal vein aneurysm.
- Authors
Okur, N.; Inal, M.; Akgül, E.; Demircan, O.; Akgül, E
- Abstract
Aneurysm of the portal venous system, a localized fusiform or saccular dilatation, is a rare clinical abnormality. Most aneurysms are located in the extrahepatic segment and rarely in intrahepatic branches. Portal vein aneurysms are usually uncomplicated and asymptomatic and detected incidentally during diagnostic work-up. We describe a case of a bleeding intrahepatic portal vein aneurysm studied with ultrasonography, color Doppler, computed tomography, and percutaneous transhepatic portography in a noncirrhotic patient. Although there are 43 published cases of portal vein aneurysm in the English-language literature, neither rupture and spontaneous thrombosis of an intrahepatic portal vein aneurysm nor its nonsurgical conservative treatment has been reported.
- Subjects
ANEURYSMS; VASCULAR diseases; BLOOD coagulation; BLOOD vessels; PORTAL vein; TOMOGRAPHY
- Publication
Abdominal Imaging, 2003, Vol 28, Issue 5, p675
- ISSN
0942-8925
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s00261-002-0091-6