title: Late Greenfield filter vena cava perforation causing a small bowel obstruction: case report.
abstract: This report describes a symptomatic case of vena caval perforation caused by a vena cava filter. Functional small bowel obstruction due to vascular compromise was caused by a prong of the filter.
authors.affiliation: Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212-9986.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dagirmanjian
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Beckman
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D005374:Filtration / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery; D012421:Rupture; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000293:injuries*