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Asymptomatic lumbar vertebral erosion from inferior vena cava filter perforation. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 2007;30(3):494-6

Date

02/06/2007

Pubmed ID

17278037

DOI

10.1007/s00270-006-0001-3

Scopus ID

2-s2.0-34247108774 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site)   3 Citations

Abstract

In 2002, a 24-year-old female trauma patient underwent prophylactic inferior vena cava filter placement. Recurrent bouts of renal stones prompted serial CT imaging in 2004. In this brief report, we describe erosion and ossification of the L3 vertebral body by a Greenfield filter strut.

Author List

Fang W, Hieb RA, Olson E, Carrera GF

Author

Robert A. Hieb MD, RVT, FSIR Professor in the Radiology department at Medical College of Wisconsin




MESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold

Adult
Equipment Design
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Foreign-Body Migration
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Imaging, Three-Dimensional
Lumbar Vertebrae
Multiple Trauma
Ossification, Heterotopic
Postoperative Complications
Tomography, Spiral Computed
Vena Cava Filters