May-Thurner syndrome: Case report and review of the literature involving modern endovascular therapy

Vascular

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 330-335

  Moudgill, Neil ^a   Hager, Eric ^a   Gonsalves, Carin ^a   Larson, Robert ^a   Lombardi, Joseph ^a   Dimuzio, Paul ^a  

^a THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Deep venous thrombosis; Endovascular; Iliac vein compression syndrome; May Thurner syndrome; Stent; Thrombolysis

Indexed keywords

HEPARIN; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; WARFARIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD CLOT LYSIS; CASE REPORT; DOPPLER ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; LEG EDEMA; LEG PAIN; LEG THROMBOSIS; MAY THURNER SYNDROME; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR PATENCY; VEIN OCCLUSION; VENA CAVA FILTER; ADOLESCENT; ANGIOPLASTY; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; FEMORAL VEIN; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEG; MALE; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POPLITEAL VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; REVIEW; STENOSIS, OCCLUSION AND OBSTRUCTION; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULARIZATION; VEIN THROMBOSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ANGIOPLASTY; ANTICOAGULANTS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FEMORAL VEIN; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENTS; HUMANS; ILIAC VEIN; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LOWER EXTREMITY; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; POPLITEAL VEIN; STENTS; SYNDROME; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; TISSUE PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 75649139920     PISSN: 17085381     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2310/6670.2009.00027     Document Type: Article

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