Anatomy
This vessel is the largest vein of the portal venous system.
What is the main portal vein?
This organ filters and processes nutrients delivered by the portal vein.
What is the liver?
This branch is generally longer and more horizontal.
What is the left portal vein?
A clot in the portal vein can cause this problem by preventing normal blood flow into the liver.
What is portal vein obstruction?
The patient position that is commonly used for main portal vein ultrasounds.
What is supine?
The main portal vein shows up as a dark circle on ultrasound scan and it is referred to as this term for echogenicity.
What is anechoic?
The portal vein carries blood from the stomach, intestines, pancreas, and spleen before it reaches this circulation.
What is systemic circulation?
At the porta hepatis, the main portal vein divides into these two branches.
What are the right and left portal veins?
Increased pressure within the portal venous system is called this.
What is portal hypertension?
Unlike most veins, the main portal vein carries blood to this organ instead of directly back to the heart.
What is the liver?
The main portal vein is approximately this many centimeters long in adults.
What is 8 cm?
The portal vein carries blood rich in these substances absorbed from the digestive tract.
What are nutrients?
This branch primarily supplies the right lobe of the liver.
What is the right portal vein?
A blood clot within the portal vein is known by this term.
What is portal vein thrombosis?
The transducer type that is used to perform protocols on the main portal vein.
Curvilinear or Curved
The main portal vein forms posterior to this part of the pancreas.
What is the neck of the pancreas?
Compared with blood in the hepatic artery, portal vein blood contains less of this gas.
What is oxygen?
This anatomical gateway is where the portal vein enters the liver.
What is the porta hepatis?
This chronic liver disease is the leading cause of portal hypertension.
What is cirrhosis?
The liver receives blood from the portal vein after this process breaks food into absorbable molecules.
What is digestion?
This bundle entering the liver contains the portal vein, hepatic artery, and bile duct. The main portal being the largest out of the bundle.
What is the portal triad?
This two-vein union forms the main portal vein.
What are the superior mesenteric vein and splenic vein?
Inside the liver, portal vein branches travel alongside these two structures.
What are the hepatic artery and common bile duct?
This imaging study uses sound waves and blood flow measurements to evaluate portal vein abnormalities.
What is Doppler ultrasound?
In the transverse ultrasound of the right lobe of the liver, these three structures: the common bile duct, hepatic artery, and the main portal vein, form to create the shadow of this famous character.
What is Mickey Mouse?