Abstract
Purpose
The purpose was to investigate magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) features of biliary
collateral veins and associated biliary abnormalities of portal hypertensive biliopathy
(PHB).
Materials and methods
Thirty-six patients including 18 patients with abnormal biliary changes and 18 patients
as control group were involved in this study. MRI features of biliary collateral veins
were analyzed.
Results
Stenosis with dilated proximal bile ducts occurred in 33.3% of patients, 27.8% of
patients had irregular ductal walls, 22.2% of patients had thickened ductal walls,
16.7% of patients had angulated ductal walls, and 44.4% of patients had thickened
gallbladder walls.
Conclusions
Biliary collateral veins and associated biliary abnormalities of PHB can be detected
by MRI.
Abbreviations:
PHB (portal hypertensive biliopathy), CTPV (cavernous transformation of portal vein), ICC (interclass correlation coefficient)Keywords
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: May 07, 2015
Accepted:
April 28,
2015
Received in revised form:
April 26,
2015
Received:
January 30,
2015
Footnotes
☆Conflict of interest: The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
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