Giant Superior Vena Cava Aneurysm

Congenital Superior Vena Cava Aneurysm

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Primary Fusiform Superior Vena Cava Aneurysm

Superior vena cava (SVC) aneurysms are rare mediastinal vascular lesions. We report a case of a 42-year-old female, who presented to the outpatient department with features suggestive of lower respiratory tract infection. Chest X-ray showed abnormal contour and widening of right border of mediastinum. Computed tomography (CT) thorax revealed fusiform aneurysmal ectasia of SVC measuring 4.5 × 5....

Supracardiac total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage with giant superior vena cava aneurysm: a rare combination.

Surgical repair for giant ascending aortic aneurysm to superior vena cava fistula with positive syphilitic test

Syphilitic aortitis is usually associated with thoracic aortic saccular aneurysm, aortic regurgitation and coronary ostial stenosis. However, syphilitic aneurysms have rarely been reported today. Here, we report a patient with ascending aortic aneurysm with aorta-superior vena cava (SVC) fistula with positive syphilitic test. A 52-year-old man was admitted to our institution with a giant ascend...

Giant aortic aneurysm as a rare cause of superior vena cava syndrome.

We report the case of a 79-year-old man for whom investigations of superior vena cava syndrome have revealed extramedullary plasmocytoma. Extramedullary plasmocytoma (EMP) is the less frequent form of plasma cell neoplasms. The mediastinal location of EMP is rare, and its compressive nature is exceptional. Another particular feature we observed is that the EMP was associated with an authentic k...