Asymptomatic thrombosis as a late complication of a retrohepatic vena caval graft performed for primary leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1012-1015

  Hirohashi, Kazuhiro ^a   Shuto, Taichi ^a   Kubo, Shoji ^a   Tanaka, Hiromu ^a   Tsukamoto, Tadashi ^a   Shibata, Toshihiko ^a   Yamamoto, Takatsugu ^a   Kanazawa, Akishige ^a   Fukui, Toshihiro ^a   Suehiro, Shigefumi ^a   Kinoshita, Hiroaki ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Complication; Inferior vena cava; Leiomyosarcoma; Thrombosis; Vena caval graft

Indexed keywords

ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; POLITEF; TICLOPIDINE; WARFARIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CANCER SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CAVA VEIN DISEASE; CLINICAL FEATURE; FEMALE; HEPATIC VEIN; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VEIN GRAFT;

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESIS IMPLANTATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; MIDDLE AGED; POLYTETRAFLUOROETHYLENE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; VASCULAR NEOPLASMS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0036450894     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s005950200204     Document Type: Article

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