CT demonstration of infected SVC thrombus
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A Multicenter MRI Protocol for the Evaluation and Quantification of Deep Vein Thrombosis
Published on: June 2, 2015
M Macari1, D M Panicek, E Morris
1Department of Radiology, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York 10021, USA.
Clinical Imaging
|April 17, 1998
Abstract:
We report a case in which computed tomography (CT) demonstrated gas within a thrombus in the superior vena cava in a patient with fever of unknown origin (FUO), indicating that the thrombus was infected. This CT finding is important to recognize, as it affects subsequent therapy.
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