title: Posttraumatic inferior vena caval thrombosis: case report and review of the literature.
abstract: This report describes an autopsied case of inferior vena caval thrombosis that occurred secondary to blunt trauma in a 21-year-old man. Fourteen days after the injury, he died of massive thromboembolism of the main pulmonary artery. Implications of this case and a review of the literature are presented.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013927:Thrombosis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*