It is the lower, or inferior, part of the vena cava—a large vein also made up of the superior vena cava that carries blood ... Often a person won’t have any symptoms to signal a defect in the IVC.

In this study, we reported an extremely rare case presenting congenital intestinal malrotation, duodenal obstruction, dextrocardia, absent inferior vena cava (IVC ... Abdominal CT showing the superior ...

Persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC) is a common congenital venous anomaly ... According to the autopsy findings, there was a thrombosis of periprostatic venous plexus and thromboembolism in the ...

1. Introduction Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) can occur from extrinsic compression by a primary lung or mediastinal neoplasm, mediastinal lymph node metastasis, a benign tumor or intraluminal ...

The differential diagnoses of SVC syndrome include cardiac tamponade and right ventricular dysfunction. Dedicated cardiac imaging with echocardiography can distinguish between these diagnoses ...

Here we describe an uncommon case of a 48-year-old male patient with an invasive thymoma invading the superior vena cava, bilateral innominate veins, right internal jugular vein, right subclavian vein ...