Inferior vena cava thrombosis examined by three-dimensional and color-Doppler ultrasound
G Székely, Á Szilvás, Á Futó · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2007 · Heft 05
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Aims: Complex symptoms of venous caval thrombosis are often missing. Abdominal Doppler US is the proper non-invasive method to demonstrate it in early stage. The cause of the mechanical obstruction of vena cava or major hepatic veins are mainly coagulopathy and tumors. Oncologic chemotherapy can also be the origin of thrombosis. Patients and methods: 48 year old female patient was admitted to another hospital's department because of ascites and abdominal pain. In her history she was operated for adrenocortical oncocytaer adenoma of the adrenal gland, which was diagnosed as a semimalignant tumor. After a year she…