The Intrahepatic Vasculogram and Hepatogram in Cirrhosis Following Percutaneous Splenic Injection

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Although portal venography has been extensively used to study the extrahepatic portal venous system (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 12, 13), only relatively minimal attention has been paid to evaluation of the diseased liver by means of the same procedure (1, 2, 7, 8). Rigler and Olfelt (10, 11) have employed aortography to visualize the portal venous system and by this transcapillary method to opacify the liver. Daniel et at. (5) in 1952 demonstrated the potentiality of direct portal venography for study of the cirrhotic liver in rats in which cirrhosis had been experimentally produced. We have found splenoportography a useful means for investigation of certain disease processes of the liver. The present paper constitutes a preliminary report of such a study. The technic routinely employed in this project is as follows: 40 c.c, of opaque medium (70 per cent Urokon) is injected into the spleen in approximately twelve seconds. Serial films are made at two, four, six, eight, and twelve seconds following the beginning of in...

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