Imaging Diagnosis of Splanchnic Venous Thrombosis

Figure 42

Axial MIP image showing a severely attenuated and partially calcified retropancreatic splenic vein (interrupted arrows) resulting in formation of a prominent gastroepiploic collateral channel (arrowheads) between the SMV and the remnant splenic vein at splenic hilum (solid arrow) along the greater curvature of stomach. Asterisk denotes the gastric lumen.