Anomalous portal venous connection to the suprahepatic vena cava: sonographic demonstration.
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.
Bellah
R D
RD
Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
Hayek
J
J
Teele
R L
RL
D000015:Abnormalities, Multiple / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002312:Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic / Q000151:congenital*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011169:Portal Vein / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000473:pathology*