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Case Reports
. 2009 Feb 3;180(3):355.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.080754.

Superior vena cava syndrome

Basile Nicolas Landis  1 , Pierre Bohanes, Romain Kohler
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Case Reports

Superior vena cava syndrome

Basile Nicolas Landis et al. CMAJ. .
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Figure 1: (A) Swelling in the hand of a 72-year-old man with signs of pitting edema (A, arrows). Contrast-enhanced computed tomography scans of the neck and chest showing enlargement of the retropharyngeal space (B, arrows) and a mass compressing the superior vena cava (C, arrow).
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References

    1. Wilson LD, Detterbeck FC, Yahalom J. Clinical practice. Superior vena cava syndrome with malignant causes. N Engl J Med 2007;356:1862-9. - PubMed

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