Images in Vascular Medicine: Intravascular lipoma of a common femoral vein - an uncommon cause of recurrent deep vein thrombosis.

Physical examination revealed edema and swelling of the left leg, and color Doppler ultrasonography (US) documented a floating oval lesion in the left common femoral vein (online supplementary video). A 73-year-old woman with a history of recurrent deep vein thrombosis of the left lower extremity, which occurred approximately 7 and 5 years previously, was admitted for placement of a caval filter prior to surgery to repair a left femur fracture. 3 Lowry D, Kay MD, Tiwari A. Common femoral vein canal lipoma causing chronic unilateral lower limb swelling. [Extracted from the article]