title: [The role of new medical imaging technics (TDM and MRI) in the diagnostic strategies of superior vena cava syndrome].
abstract: Superior vena caval syndrome (VCS), is easily recognised in the advanced case, however in the early case without clinical signs its detection is much less easy. New techniques of medical imagery such as IRM and above all computer tomography (TDM) have shown an increasing place in the daily clinical practice of the respiratory physician; these enable an early diagnosis to be made and a work up of the aetiology of the syndrome of VCS. With TDM the obstruction of the VCS appears the sign of direct obstruction (thrombosis or extrinsic compression) and of a collateral venous circulation deriving some anastomoses from the brachio-cephalic venous trunk (TVBC) and the azygos system, the VCS and the inferior vena cava (VCI), the two TVBC at the junction of the median line principally by the suprasternal network and finally these portal systemics, by the veins from the anterior wall of the trunk and the accessory portal veins of the round ligament. IRM introduced more recently enables a direct vision of the causal lesion endo or extra luminally, enabling an early detection of the syndrome by showing signs of a slow down of the venous flow. But the detection of a collateral circulation seems more difficult to demonstrate by this method.
authors.affiliation: Service de Radiologie, Höpital Albert Michallon, Grenoble.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coulomb
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Moro
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Le Rumeur
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ranchoup
authors.forename: L R
authors.initials: LR
authors.lastname: Pittet
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Brambilla
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Paramelle
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D013479:Superior Vena Cava Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000473:pathology
vernacular_title: Place des nouvelles techniques d'imagerie médicale (TDM et IRM) dans la stratégie diagnostique du syndrome de la veine cave supérieure.