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Posttraumatic inferior vena caval thrombosis: case report and review of the literature
M Takeuchi1, K Maruyama, M Nakamura
1Intensive Care Unit, University of Mie Hospital, Japan.
The Journal of Trauma
|September 1, 1995
Abstract:
This report describes an autopsied case of inferior vena caval thrombosis that occurred secondary to blunt trauma in a 21-year-old man. Fourteen days after the injury, he died of massive thromboembolism of the main pulmonary artery. Implications of this case and a review of the literature are presented.