Objective To study the imaging appearances of congenital splenorenal venous shunt,and to evaluate their clinical significances.Methods Of 127 283 patients who underwent upper abdominal CT scanning,6 patients were diagnosed to have congenital splenorenal venous shunt.The imagings were studied retrospectively.Plain scanning,enhanced CT and Doppler ultrasonography were performed on all these patients.Results The incidence was about 47/million.The six patients were all females,the age was between 32 to 67 years.The mean age was 48.8 years.Enhanced CT demonstrated that there were twisted and dilated shunting blood vessels between the splenic and renal veins.The diameters in four patients were larger than the splenic and portal veins.In the remaining two patients,they were smaller shunting blood vessels.One patient had an associated absence of right portal vein.Two patients had associated dysplasia of portal veins and splenic veins.MPR,CPR,MIP and VR could three-dimensionally depict the courses,the beginnings and the ends of the splenorenal shunts.Doppler ultrasonography showed counterflow between the portal and splenic veins,and showed the blood in the splenic vein to flow into the left renal vein.Conclusions A congenital splenorenal venous shunt is one of the rare form of congenital extrahepatic portosystemic venous shunts.Enhanced MSCT scan combining with its post-processing techniques could clearly demonstrate the shunt vessels and the associated lesions.Doppler ultrasonography could further demonstrate the shunt direction.

Objective:To explore the influencing factors of satisfaction with thyroid nodule fine needle biopsy (FNA).Methods:The ultrasonic images of 88 patients with thyroid nodules (95 nodules) in Dongguan Binhai Bay Central Hospital from September 2016 to January 2019 were analyzed retrospectively. According to Bethesda cytological classification standard, Bethesda class Ⅰ cytological specimens were defined as unsatisfactory, and Bethesda class Ⅱ-Ⅵ cytological specimens were defined as satisfactory. The thyroid nodule location, composition, internal echo, morphology, aspect ratio, calcification, blood supply mode and American College of Radiology Thyroid Imaging Reporting and Data System(ACR TI-RADS) classification on the satisfaction rate of thyroid nodule FNA samples were evaluated, and then the meaningful influencing factors were analyzed by logistic regression.Results:The overall satisfaction of the sample in this study was 84.2% (80/95). The results of univariate analysis showed that the location, aspect ratio and ACR TI-RADS classification of thyroid nodules were the related factors affecting the satisfaction of FNA specimens of thyroid nodules, with statistically significant difference ( P<0.05). Logistic regression analysis showed that the aspect ratio of thyroid nodules was an independent factor affecting the satisfaction of FNA specimens of thyroid nodules ( OR=13.5, P=0.02). Conclusions:The main factor affecting the satisfaction rate of FNA specimens of thyroid nodules may lie in the characteristics of the aspect ratio of the nodules themselves. Optimizing the puncture route may help to reduce the dissatisfaction rate of FNA specimens of thyroid nodules.