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A 66-year-old female with a rare high-grade undifferentiated intimal sarcoma of the inferior vena cava died of multiple organ failure postoperatively.
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This case highlights a rare and fatal presentation of high-grade undifferentiated intimal sarcoma of the inferior vena cava with extensive vascular and right atrial involvement.
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Documents fatal postoperative course in rare IVC intimal sarcoma; leaves open optimal therapeutic approaches.
A 66-year-old Asian female diagnosed with an occupied mass of the inferior vena cava (IVC) case with extension to the right atrium, bilateral renal vasculature, and venae iliaca communis, which caused severe thrombocytopenia and severe liver and kidney dysfunction. The postoperative pathological diagnosis was high-grade undifferentiated intimal sarcoma. There have been less than 10 cases of venous undifferentiated intimal sarcomas reported in the literature, three of which occurred in the IVC. Unfortunately, the patient died of multiple organ failure in the intensive care unit postoperatively.
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Zhang et al. (2019) conducted a case report in Intimal sarcoma of the inferior vena cava (n=1). Surgery was evaluated. A 66-year-old female with a rare high-grade undifferentiated intimal sarcoma of the inferior vena cava died of multiple organ failure postoperatively.
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