Open AccessMigration of a piece of shrapnel: femoral vein to superior vena cava--azygous junction
Author(s) -
Bipin Koirala,
Kajan Raj Shrestha,
Babu Ram Thapa,
Prakash Sayami
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
european journal of cardio-thoracic surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.303
H-Index - 133
eISSN - 1873-734X
pISSN - 1010-7940
DOI - 10.1093/ejcts/ezs267
Subject(s) - medicine , inferior vena cava , femoral vein , foreign body , asymptomatic , superior vena cava , azygos vein , surgery , anatomy , vein , thigh , right atrium
We report a case of a shrapnel injury to the right thigh in which a foreign body had lodged in, and moved freely from, the femoral vein to the inferior vena cava and right atrium. However, instead of going into the right ventricle and pulmonary artery, it lodged itself in the superior vena cava-azygous junction. During the entire period, the patient remained asymptomatic and the foreign body was surgically retrieved uneventfully.
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