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Left-sided inferior vena cava with nutcracker syndrome

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Left-sided inferior vena cava (IVC) is a rare malformation of IVC. We report an 11-year-old boy with hematuria and left lower back pain due to compression of the left-sided IVC between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery. Ultrasonography and magnetic resonance imaging clearly revealed this anatomic anomaly.

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  1. Department of Pediatrics, Obihiro Kyokai Hospital, 2, East 5, South 9, Obihiro, Hokkaido, 080-0805, Japan

    Yasuhiro Ueda & Hayato Aoyagi

  2. Department of Pediatrics, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, North 15, West 7, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 060-8638, Japan

    Takayuki Okamoto

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Ueda, Y., Aoyagi, H. & Okamoto, T. Left-sided inferior vena cava with nutcracker syndrome. Clin Exp Nephrol 23, 425–426 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10157-018-1636-5

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