Main Portal Vein Diameter Changes in Patients Undergoing Gastric Surgery for Malignancy: An Observational CT Study

Abstract

Background In the follow-up computed tomography (CT) examinations of patients who had undergone gastrectomy for gastric malignancy in our center, we noticed by chance that there was an isolated increase in the diameter of the main portal vein (MPV) without other radiological findings of portal hypertension.

Keywords

• main portal vein diameter
• computed tomography
• gastric surgery