Compression of left inferior vena cava: A form of nutcracker syndrome
โ Scribed by Suat Fitoz; Fatos Yalcinkaya
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 236 KB
- Volume
- 36
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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โฆ Synopsis
Abstract
Left renal vein hypertension has been described in the literature as a cause of persistant hematuria. We report a case of nutcracker syndrome with hematuria involving the left inferior vena cava diagnosed with Doppler sonography and MRI. ยฉ 2007 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Clin Ultrasound, 2008
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