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Caval umbrella causing obstructive uropathy
D Flanagan1, T Creasy, F Chataway
1Metabolism Unit, Royal Bournemouth Hospital, UK.
Postgraduate Medical Journal
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
A 49-year-old woman had a vena caval filters inserted having suffered multiple pulmonary emboli and a large upper gastrointestinal bleed. She re-presented five years later with loin pain and obstructive uropathy. She was found to have a right pelvi-ureteric obstruction due to inferior vena caval wall perforation from the vena caval filter.