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Retroperitoneal fibrosis leading to extrahepatic portal vein obstruction
H Gatanaga1, S Ohnishi, H Miura
1Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tokyo.
Internal Medicine (Tokyo, Japan)
|June 1, 1994
Abstract:
A very rare case of highly probable retroperitoneal fibrosis leading to extrahepatic portal obstruction is described. The patient was a 44-year-old woman with right pleural effusion and splenomegaly. Computed tomography indicated a large accumulation of soft tissues in the retroperitoneum, and abdominal angiography showed extensive portal obstruction. A twenty-year-long abuse of analgesics is suspected to have caused the retroperitoneal fibrosis.