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A Case of Congenital Intrahepatic Portosystemic Venous Shunt
Do Yeon Kim, Dong Jin Lee, Jung Hyeok Kwon
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2000;43(2):283-287.   Published online February 15, 2000
Intrahepatic portosystemic venous shunt(IPVS) is an uncommon pathologic condition which occurs mostly in adult patients with portal hypertension and cirrhosis of the liver with only scattered reports are on children. However, asymptomatic IPVS have been detected in an increasing number of patients with recent advances in imaging techniques, such as sonography, CT, MR imaging, and color Doppler sonography. The cause...