[Duplication of the superior vena cava and other malformations discovered at insertion of a port-a-cath]

Rev Pneumol Clin. 2005 Sep;61(4 Pt 1):275-8. doi: 10.1016/s0761-8417(05)84826-6.
[Article in French]

Abstract

We report a clinical case of a persistent left superior vena cava discovered in a 50-year-old female patient when a port-a-cath was inserted. This already seldom malformation was associated with an arteria lusoria and polysplenia with left inferior vena cava with hemiazygos continuation, right-sided stomach, short pancreas, preduodenal portal vein and intestinal malrotation, but without any cardiac abnormalities.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Catheters, Indwelling
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Incidental Findings*
  • Intestinal Volvulus / diagnosis
  • Middle Aged
  • Pancreas / abnormalities
  • Portal Vein / abnormalities
  • Spleen / abnormalities
  • Stomach / abnormalities
  • Subclavian Artery / abnormalities
  • Vena Cava, Inferior / abnormalities
  • Vena Cava, Superior / abnormalities*