Anomalous portal venous connection to the suprahepatic vena cava: sonographic demonstration

1 November 1989

journal article
case report
Published by Springer Nature in Pediatric Radiology

Vol. 20 (1-2) , 115-117
https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02010654

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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