Standard Imaging Techniques for Assessment of Portal Venous System and its Tributaries by Linear Endoscopic Ultrasound: A Pictorial Essay

Linear Endosonography has been used to image the Portal Venous System but no established standard guidelines exist. This articlepresents techniques to visualize the portal venous system and its tributaries by linear endosonography. Attempt has been made toshow most of the first order tributaries and some second order tributaries of splenic vein, superior mesenteric vein and portal vein.