| 1. | Unlike most veins, the portal vein does not drain into the heart.
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| 2. | After entering the renal portal vein, blood enters the peritubular blood supply.
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| 3. | Pressure in the portal vein and inferior vena cava are often measured.
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| 4. | If he cut away the tumor, he would injure the portal vein.
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| 5. | Examples of such systems include the hepatic portal vein and hypophyseal portal system.
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| 6. | Following this, carbon dioxide is injected to locate the portal vein.
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| 7. | This species had produced megaloschizonts in the intrahepatic bile ducts and portal veins.
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| 8. | Other tributaries of the portal vein include the gastric veins.
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| 9. | Conditions involving the portal vein cause considerable illness and death.
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| 10. | The portal vein is formed when the splenic vein joins the superior mesenteric vein.
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