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Case Reports
. 2002 May;12(5):1175-8.
doi: 10.1007/s00330-001-1144-x. Epub 2001 Oct 24.

Detection of portal venous gas on sonography, but not on CT

Patrick Chevallier  1 , Emmanuel Peten, Johanna Souci, Yves Chau, Bernard Padovani, Joel Noël Bruneton
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Case Reports

Detection of portal venous gas on sonography, but not on CT

Patrick Chevallier et al. Eur Radiol. 2002 May.

Abstract

We report three cases of portal venous gas detected on sonography without any portal abnormality on CT. In such a situation portal gas could correspond to a tiny amount of intraluminal gas after blunt abdominal trauma or, in contrast, to large or very large quantities of high blood-solubility gases in case of septicemia. Outcome was favorable in all three cases.

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