Post-traumatic inferior vena caval thrombosis: case report

Nagy, K.K.; Duarte, B.

Journal of Trauma 30(2): 218-221

1990


ISSN/ISBN: 0022-5282
PMID: 2304119
Document Number: 361386
Thrombosis of the aorta and inferior vena cava is a rare sequela of blunt abdominal trauma. Inferior vena caval thrombosis developed in a 55-year-old man after blunt abdominal trauma. It was detected 18 days after injury through the use of computed tomography. The patient was treated with a Greenfield filter and anticoagulation.

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