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Duodenal perforation by a Greenfield filter: endoscopic diagnosis
A U Bianchini1, S N Mehta, D S Mulder
1Department of General Surgery, The Montreal General Hospital, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|April 1, 1997
Abstract:
Despite its proven safety and efficacy, complications from the Greenfield vena cava filter have been described. We report the unusual case of a duodenal perforation by a filter in a 29-yr-old male. The diagnosis was made incidentally at endoscopy.