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Vascular Stenosis

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This chapter contains images of stenosis of the arterial system and IVC. The causes range from congenital, degenerative, neoplastic and idiopathic. The various collateral pathways are also shown

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Agarwala, R. (2015). Vascular Stenosis. In: Atlas of Emergency Radiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13042-2_6

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