Temporary Extravascular Shunt for Reconstruction of a Superior Vena Cava Invaded by a Lung Tumor Masaya Yotsukura, MD, Tomonari Kinoshita, MD, Ikuo Kamiyama, MD, Tai Hato, MD, PhD, Taichiro Goto, MD, PhD, Takashi Ohtsuka, MD, PhD, Akihiro Yoshitake, MD, PhD, Mikihiko Kudo, MD, PhD, Mitsutomo Kohno, MD, PhD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 98, Issue 6, Pages 2242-2243 (December 2014) DOI: 10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.06.078 Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions
Fig 1 (A) A temporary, extraanatomic venous shunt to maintain the caval flow was placed between the superior vena cava (SVC) and the right atrial appendage before clamping the SVC. (B) The tumor (arrow), contained in the shaded area, was resected en bloc together with the SVC wall. The Annals of Thoracic Surgery 2014 98, 2242-2243DOI: (10.1016/j.athoracsur.2014.06.078) Copyright © 2014 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons Terms and Conditions