Chronic abdominal pain and upper gastrointestinal bleeding due to duodenal perforation caused by migrated inferior vena cava filter--a case report.
The authors describe an unusual case of a 41-year-old man presenting with chronic abdominal pain and gastrointestinal bleeding caused by a migrated inferior vena cava filter eroding into the duodenum.
Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI 53792, USA.
John C
JC
Mansour
Fred T
FT
Lee
Herbert
H
Chen
William D
WD
Turnipseed
Sharon M
SM
Weber
D015746:Abdominal Pain / Q000209:etiology*; D000328:Adult; D002908:Chronic Disease; D004378:Duodenal Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000150:complications*; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007416:Intestinal Perforation / Q000209:etiology*; D008297:Male; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D016306:Vena Cava Filters / Q000009:adverse effects*