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SUBMITTER: Toy J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6861031 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Toy Jake J Garrett Alexander A Liu Yiju Teresa YT
Clinical practice and cases in emergency medicine 20191014 4
A 52-year-old man without known medical history presented with painful, progressive, bilateral lower extremity edema over a two-week period. An abdominal exam noted a firm left upper quadrant mass. Emergency department (ED) point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) revealed a hyperechoic, heterogeneous structure in the inferior vena cava that was determined to represent a tumor thrombus extending from a primary renal cell carcinoma. This case demonstrates how POCUS was valuable in rapidly diagnosing this ...[more]