Friend or Foe? Spontaneous Portosystemic Shunts in Cirrhosis—Current Understanding and Future Prospects

Figure 11

Axial (a, b) and coronal (c, d) CECT images depicting gastric varices (encircled in (a, b) in a 74-year-old patient with liver cirrhosis and intractable gastric variceal bleeding. Post-PARTO images (c, d) show completely thrombosed varices (encircled in (c, d)) with vascular plug-in-situ (arrow in (d)). Note. The interval increase in the caliber of main portal vein and its intrahepatic branches (dashed arrows).

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