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Superior vena cava syndrome in a patient with previous cardiac surgery: what else should we suspect?

BACKGROUND: Although mediastinal tumors compressing or invading the superior vena cava represent the major causes of the superior vena cava syndrome, benign processes may also be involved in the pathogenesis of this medical emergency. One of the rarest benign causes is a pseudoaneurysm developing in...

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Autores principales: Dedeilias, Panagiotis, Nenekidis, Ioannis, Hountis, Panagiotis, Prokakis, Christos, Dolou, Paraskevi, Apostolakis, Efstratios, Koletsis, Efstratios N
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2904740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20579339
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-1596-5-43