[Right-sided duplication of the inferior vena cava].
An infrarenal duplication of the inferior vena cava with both channels lying on the right side of the aorta was fortuitously found during an abdominal Computed Tomography performed on a 52 year-old woman. Only two same cases seem to be reported in the literature. This very uncommon abnormality probably results from persistence of the infra-renal part of the right subcardinal vein. Radiologists have to be aware of this right-sided ipsilateral duplication for it may be a trap in abdominal imaging as well as "classical" inferior vena cava duplication located on both sides of the abdominal aorta.
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Service d'Anatomie, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, Faculté de Médecine et des Sciences de la Santé, 22 avenue Camille Desmoulins, CS 93837, 29237 Brest Cedex 3. bernard.senecail@univ-brest.fr
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Bobeuf
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Hebert
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Wazizi
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D005260:Female; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging