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ACUTE SUPERIOR VENA CAVA OBSTRUCTION WITH INTRACAVITARY THROMBOSIS: A COMPLICATION OF CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION. 1979

Arun K. Singh, and David L. Dykhuizan, and Lester L. Vargas
Division of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island 02903.

This report describes a patient who developed acute superior vena cava syndrome, intracavitary right atrial thrombus, and recurrent pulmonary emboli 10 days after central venous catheterization. The patient was treated successfully by emergency thoracotomy.

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