The authors report a case of intrahepatic portal vein thrombosis in a sixty-four-year-old Japanese man with antithrombin III deficiency who successfully underwent cholecystec tomy and common bile duct exploration. To their knowledge, this is the first report of portal vein thrombosis due to primary antithrombin III deficiency.
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