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Ultrasonography showed a dilated and obstructed portal vein
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Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a tubular hypoechoic lesion in the portal vein with no blood flow at the lesion site (Figure 1).
Computed tomographic scan of the abdomen showing a portal vein thrombus
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The abdominal computed tomography (CT) scan (Figure 2) did not show extension to the mesenteric venous arches or the splenic vein.
Proposed diagnostic and therapeutic algorithm for patients with acute portal vein thrombosis/mesenteric vein thrombosis (PVT/MVT)
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