An Unusual Case of Uninterrupted Inferior Vena Cava with Accessory Hemizygous Channel: An Incidental Finding in a Child

Azygos or hemizygous continuation of inferior vena cava (IVC) is diagnosed in the presence of intrahepatic interruption of IVC. We report a case of a 4-year-old, male child presenting with a history of poor weight gain. A detailed evaluation of the child revealed a diagnosis of hemizygous continuati...

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Autores principales: Agrawal, Gaurav, Das, Anupam, Gupta, Gaurav
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7879915/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33109815
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/aca.ACA_117_19
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Sumario:Azygos or hemizygous continuation of inferior vena cava (IVC) is diagnosed in the presence of intrahepatic interruption of IVC. We report a case of a 4-year-old, male child presenting with a history of poor weight gain. A detailed evaluation of the child revealed a diagnosis of hemizygous continuation of uninterrupted, but severely obstructed, IVC. This incidental finding has rarely been reported in the literature.

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