Pregnant woman presenting with a gross retroperitoneal mass: surgical treatment with caval replacement.
A 40-year-old woman in the twenty-fifth week of pregnancy presented with a gross retroperitoneal mass. At the end of the pregnancy, the patient was submitted to surgery, and the gross infiltration of the inferior vena cava wall required the resection of the vena cava with its prosthetic substitution. The histopathological examination demonstrated the presence of a leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava. An electronic video supplement showing the most important intraoperative passages is available online at doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2008.06.074.
Bertini
Roberto
R
Department of Urology, Vita-Salute University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
Suardi
Nazareno
N
Marone
Enrico M
EM
Roscigno
Marco
M
Petralia
Giovanni
G
Strada
Elena
E
Cestari
Andrea
A
Arrigoni
Gianluigi
G
Guazzoni
Giorgio
G
Montorsi
Francesco
F
Chiesa
Roberto
R
Rigatti
Patrizio
P
D000328:Adult; D019917:Blood Vessel Prosthesis Implantation / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007890:Leiomyosarcoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011252:Pregnancy Complications, Neoplastic / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D019043:Vascular Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery*