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Delayed spontaneous superior vena cava perforation associated with a SVC wallstent
S L Smith1, A R Manhire, D M Clark
1Department of Radiology, The Ipswich Hospital NHS Trust, Suffolk, UK. simonsmith@ukonline.co.uk
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
|January 10, 2002
Abstract:
A patient was referred for superior vena cava (SVC) stenting prior to surgical biopsy of a mediastinal mass. A technically satisfactory insertion was followed 6 months later by cardiac tamponade with two legs of the Wallstent having perforated the wall of the SVC.