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Figure 5.2.12 Congenital Extrahepatic Shunt—Splenoazygos (Canine) CT
(a) CT+C, TP (b) CT+C, TP (c) CT+C, TP
(d) CT+C, TP (e) CT+C, TP (f) CT+C, TP
6mo F Yorkshire Terrier failing to gain weight. Images are ordered from caudal to cranial. On portal phase angiographic images, a shunt
vessel (a–e: arrows) exits the portal vein through the splenic vein, traveling along midline dorsal to the liver and then rising dorsally at
the diaphragm through the caudal vena cava to the azygos vein. See page 507 for Legend for Figures 5.2.1–5.2.18.
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