Subacute Budd-Chiari syndrome associated with polycythemia vera and factor V Leiden mutation.

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We describe a 48-year-old caucasian woman with a subacute Budd-Chiari syndrome attributed to the presence of polycythaemia vera, heterozygosity for the factor V Leiden mutation and the use of an oral contraceptive pill. Two diagnostic pitfalls were encountered. First, on CT scanning of the abdomen the still normally vascularized central part of the liver was initially judged as a hypervascular tumour. Second,...

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