Abstract

LEON ALVAREZ, Jorge Luis et al. Sarcoma of the vena cava inferior. Rev cubana med [online]. 2010, vol.49, n.4, pp. 387-394. ISSN 1561-302X.

Authors present an infrequent case of a female patient with abdominal tumor a great superficial collateral circulation type cava-cava, the abdominal ultrasound, the transthoracic and transesophageal echocardiogram and the computerized axial tomography (CAT) identified a tumor of the vena cava inferior. The fine-needle aspiration cytology of lesion confirmed the presence of primary fusopleomorphous sarcoma of high degree of malignancy of vena cava inferior.

Keywords : Abdominal tumor; vena cava inferior tumor; sarcoma.

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