Carbon-dioxide portography: an expanding role?

Lancet. 2000 Mar 18;355(9208):987-8. doi: 10.1016/s0140-6736(00)99020-2.

Abstract

We describe a new and inexpensive technique of imaging the portal vein in patients with liver disease by use of carbon dioxide.

Publication types

  • Letter

MeSH terms

  • Carbon Dioxide*
  • Humans
  • Liver Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Portal Vein / diagnostic imaging*
  • Portal Vein / physiology
  • Portography / methods*
  • Prospective Studies
  • Thrombosis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Vascular Patency

Substances

  • Carbon Dioxide