title: Anomalous portal venous connection to the suprahepatic vena cava: sonographic demonstration.
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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
authors.forename: R D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Bellah
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hayek
authors.forename: R L
authors.initials: RL
authors.lastname: Teele
mesh_terms: 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*