Unusual case of right-sided May-Thurner syndrome and review of its management

Vascular

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 47-50

  Burke, Renee M ^a   Rayan, Sunil S ^a   Kasirajan, Karthikeshwar ^a   Chaikof, Elliot L ^a   Milner, Ross ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep venous thrombosis; Left sided inferior vena cava; May Thurner syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ANGIOPLASTY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LABORATORY TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAY THURNER SYNDROME; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STENOSIS; STENT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIAC ARTERY; ILIAC VEIN; MIDDLE AGED; STENTS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 33745683817     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6670.2006.00012     Document Type: Review

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