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Migration of a piece of shrapnel: femoral vein to superior vena cava-azygous junction.

Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Manmohan Cardiothoracic Vascular and Transplant Centre, Kathmandu, Nepal.
European journal of cardio-thoracic surgery: official journal of the European Association for Cardio-thoracic Surgery (impact factor: 2.4). 07/2012; 42(3):584-6. DOI:10.1093/ejcts/ezs267 pp.584-6
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ABSTRACT We report a case of a shrapnel injury to the right thigh in which a foreign body had lodged in, and moved freely from, the femoral vein to the inferior vena cava and right atrium. However, instead of going into the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, it lodged itself in the superior vena cava-azygous junction. During the entire period, the patient remained asymptomatic and the foreign body was surgically retrieved uneventfully.

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Keywords

asymptomatic
 
entire period
 
femoral vein
 
inferior vena cava
 
pulmonary artery
 
superior vena cava-azygous junction
 
uneventfully
 

Bhagawan Koirala