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Compression of the inferior vena cava due to diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis
1Istituto di Clinica Ortopedica e Traumatologica, Clinica Ortopedica II, Universita di Padova, Italy.
Revue Du Rhumatisme (English Ed.)
|March 1, 1997
Abstract:
Compression of the inferior vena cava by bony excrescences on the lumbar spine has not been previously reported as a complication of diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosis. We report a phlebography-proven case in a 67-year-old man.