Retained Knife Blade and Acute Superior Vena Cava Obstruction
- 1 March 1988
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health
- Vol. 28 (3) , 416-417
- https://doi.org/10.1097/00005373-198803000-00023
Abstract
A case is described in which transfixation of the superior vena cava by the retained blade of a knife was the cause of acute caval obstruction. Use of a venous cannula as a stent allowed repair of the caval lacerations.Keywords
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