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May-thurner syndrome: A previously unreported variant

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Annals of Vascular Surgery

Abstract

Irritation of the left common iliac vein by the overlying right common iliac artery may result in intraluminal obstruction and symptomatic venous occlusion of the left lower extremity. We recently treated a 39-year-old patient with such an obstruction of the left common iliac vein as a result of compression by the left internal iliac artery. This case stresses the need to consider etiologies of external venous obstruction of the left lower extremity other than the commonly reported right common iliac artery when planning surgical intervention.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, P.O. Box 26901, 73190, Oklahoma City, OK

    John B. Steinberg MD & M. Alex Jacocks MD

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Steinberg, J.B., Jacocks, M.A. May-thurner syndrome: A previously unreported variant. Annals of Vascular Surgery 7, 577–581 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02000154

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