Vertebral Body Erosion and Subsequent Back Pain Secondary to a Vena Cava Filter
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Vertebral Body Erosion and Subsequent Back Pain Secondary to a Vena Cava Filter
BACKGROUND A patient with multiple open lumbar procedures, the most recent of which was complicated by symptomatic pulmonary embolus, underwent placement of an inferior vena cava filter (IVCF). Two years after placement, she developed low back pain with radicular symptoms. CT of the lumbar spine demonstrated vertebral body erosion from the IVCF strut. In this brief report, we describe L2 verteb...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cureus
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2168-8184
DOI: 10.7759/cureus.250