Hopital de la Pitie, Paris, France
Leiomyosarcoma of the inferior vena cava should be aggressively treated
Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, September 29th, 2006
According to recent research from France, "From 1979 to 2004, 22 patients were seen with leiomyosarcomas of the IVC. Twenty were treated surgically. Involvement of the IVC included the infrarenal segment in 3 cases, the suprarenal and/or retrohepatic segment in 13, and the suprahepatic segment in 4."
E. Kieffer and colleagues, Hopital de la Pitie-Salpetriere, wrote, "Nineteen patients underwent wide tumor resection followed by ligation of the IVC in 5 cases, replacement with a PTFE...
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