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Fig. 13 | Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Fig. 13

From: The role of multidetector CT angiography in characterizing vascular compression syndromes of the abdomen

Fig. 13

65-year-old female with May-Thurner syndrome. (a) shows the hand diagram in axial view illustrating the compression of left common iliac vein by the right common iliac artery against the vertebral body. Axial view (b) of contrast-enhanced CT study of the abdomen in venous phase shows the compression and resultant thrombosis of the left common iliac vein. Multiple arrows in c illustrate the course of thrombosed left common iliac, external iliac, and common femoral veins as a result of proximal compression of the left common iliac vein. The hand diagram is self-drawn by the author

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