A Comprehensive Review of Portosystemic Collaterals in Cirrhosis: Historical Aspects, Anatomy, and Classifications

Figure 7

(a) Axial CECT image showing multiple pericholecystic collaterals (arrows); (b) axial-oblique MIP image showing a right infradiaphragmatic type of shunt (arrowhead) arising from the left portal vein branch (asterisk) and draining into the intercostal vein; (c) coronal-oblique MIP image demonstrating a prominent recanalized paraumbilical vein (arrowheads) arising from the left branch of portal vein (black arrow) and draining into the right internal iliac vein (white arrow); (d) caput medusa, multiple periumbilical abdominal wall varices (asterisks).

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