1. Epithelioid Hemangioendothelioma Presenting as Inferior Vena Cava Obstruction Diagnosed Using an Endovascular Thrombectomy Device
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Jeff Mathews, Francis Tinney Jr., Loay S. Kabbani, David Kwon, Praveen Balraj, Sara Wasilenko, S. Schwartz, and Felix Braun
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Adult ,Male ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Biopsy ,Deep vein ,Vena Cava, Inferior ,030204 cardiovascular system & hematology ,Inferior vena cava ,Hemangioendothelioma ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography ,medicine ,Humans ,Retroperitoneal Neoplasms ,cardiovascular diseases ,Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma ,Thrombectomy ,Venous Thrombosis ,business.industry ,Endovascular Procedures ,Cell Differentiation ,Equipment Design ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Thrombosis ,Retroperitoneal Neoplasm ,Surgery ,Venous thrombosis ,Treatment Outcome ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,medicine.vein ,030220 oncology & carcinogenesis ,cardiovascular system ,Hemangioendothelioma, Epithelioid ,Stents ,Sarcoma ,Radiology ,Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine ,business - Abstract
Epithelioid hemangioendothelioma is a rare vascular sarcoma that arises from the lining (intima) of blood vessels. We report a case of a 43-year-old male patient, who presented with inferior vena cava (IVC) obstruction and acute bilateral lower extremity deep vein thrombosis. Mechanical thrombectomy was performed with an endovascular thrombectomy device, followed by stent placement in the IVC. The initial pathology on the retrieved specimen obtained from the thrombectomy device revealed an undifferentiated neoplasm, and definitive surgical resection of the retroperitoneal soft-tissue tumor of the IVC documented a rare case of epithelioid hemangioendothelioma.
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- 2017
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