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May‐Thurner syndrome: A cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema

Physicians should be familiar with May‐Thurner syndrome, characterized by the compression of the left common iliac vein by the right common iliac artery and the vertebral body, resulting in pain and swelling of the left lower extremity and DVT. A 64‐year‐old woman presented with unexplained edema in...

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Autores principales: Tago, Masaki, Fujiwara, Motoshi, Tokushima, Yoshinori, Yamashita, Shun, Aihara, Hidetoshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8223893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4315
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author Tago, Masaki
Fujiwara, Motoshi
Tokushima, Yoshinori
Yamashita, Shun
Aihara, Hidetoshi
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description Physicians should be familiar with May‐Thurner syndrome, characterized by the compression of the left common iliac vein by the right common iliac artery and the vertebral body, resulting in pain and swelling of the left lower extremity and DVT. A 64‐year‐old woman presented with unexplained edema in the left lower extremity. Computed tomography with contrast enhancement revealed that the left common iliac vein was compressed and narrowed by the right common iliac artery and the vertebral body, leading to the diagnosis of May‐Thurner syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-82238932021-06-29 May‐Thurner syndrome: A cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema Tago, Masaki Fujiwara, Motoshi Tokushima, Yoshinori Yamashita, Shun Aihara, Hidetoshi Clin Case Rep Clinical Images Physicians should be familiar with May‐Thurner syndrome, characterized by the compression of the left common iliac vein by the right common iliac artery and the vertebral body, resulting in pain and swelling of the left lower extremity and DVT. A 64‐year‐old woman presented with unexplained edema in the left lower extremity. Computed tomography with contrast enhancement revealed that the left common iliac vein was compressed and narrowed by the right common iliac artery and the vertebral body, leading to the diagnosis of May‐Thurner syndrome. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2021-06-24 /pmc/articles/PMC8223893/ /pubmed/34194802 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4315 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tago, Masaki
Fujiwara, Motoshi
Tokushima, Yoshinori
Yamashita, Shun
Aihara, Hidetoshi
May‐Thurner syndrome: A cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema
title May‐Thurner syndrome: A cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema
title_full May‐Thurner syndrome: A cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema
title_fullStr May‐Thurner syndrome: A cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema
title_full_unstemmed May‐Thurner syndrome: A cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema
title_short May‐Thurner syndrome: A cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema
title_sort may‐thurner syndrome: a cause of unexplained unilateral leg edema
topic Clinical Images
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8223893/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34194802
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.4315
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