A Free-Floating Thrombus in the Inferior Vena Cava Associated with Lung Cancer: Complete Thrombectomy Using a Simple Clamping Procedure A Case Report-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A Free-Floating Thrombus in the Inferior Vena Cava Associated with Lung Cancer: Complete Thrombectomy Using a Simple Clamping Procedure A Case Report

Published:1998-07 Issue:4 Volume:32 Page:391-395
ISSN:0042-2835
Container-title:Vascular Surgery
language:en
Short-container-title:Vascular Surgery

Author:

Kawashima Osamu¹,Hirai Toshikazu¹,Kamiyoshihara Mitsuhiro¹,Kurihara Terumasa¹,Ishikawa Susumu²,Morishita Yasuo²

Affiliation:

1. Department of Surgery, National Sanatorium Nishigunma Hospital, Gunma;

2. Second Department of Surgery, Gunma University School of Medicine, Gunma, Japan

Abstract

A 62-year-old woman with inoperable lung cancer received systemic combined chemotherapy with cisplatin and vindesine sulfate. Lower extremity edema occurred after chemotherapy and an iliocavagram revealed a large intraluminal solitary thrombus, which was floating in the inferior vena cava (IVC) and extending up to the level of the renal vein. A thrombectomy using the simple IVC clamping procedure was successfully performed. Primary thrombosis of the IVC is rare, and this is the first reported case associated with lung cancer. A thrombectomy using the simple clamping of the IVC is considered to be a safe and effective procedure for the treatment of a free-floating thrombus in the IVC even in the case of a lung cancer patient.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/153857449803200421

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