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Portal Vein

"Portal Vein" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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A short thick vein formed by union of the superior mesenteric vein and the splenic vein.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Portal Vein" by people in this website by year, and whether "Portal Vein" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 35 publications over 20 distinct years, with a maximum of 3 publications in 2008 and 2010 and 2017
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