title: Pregnant woman presenting with a gross retroperitoneal mass: surgical treatment with caval replacement.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Vita-Salute University San Raffaele, Milan, Italy.
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bertini
authors.forename: Nazareno
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Suardi
authors.forename: Enrico M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Marone
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Roscigno
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Petralia
authors.forename: Elena
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Strada
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cestari
authors.forename: Gianluigi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Arrigoni
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guazzoni
authors.forename: Francesco
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Montorsi
authors.forename: Roberto
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chiesa
authors.forename: Patrizio
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rigatti
mesh_terms: 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*