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QJM Advance Access originally published online on September 17, 2008
QJM 2009 102(1):69-70; doi:10.1093/qjmed/hcn124
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Association of Physicians. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

A misfired Greenfield filter; 21 years later!

J Cerny and B Piperdi

Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, 55 Lake Avenue North, Worcester, MA 01655-0002, USA.

email: jcern@hotmail.com

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A 35-year-old male developed deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli in 1986. He was subsequently diagnosed with protein S deficiency. As a high risk for further thromboembolic events, the patient underwent inferior vena cava (IVC) and superior vena cava (SVC) Greenfield filter placement at an outside institution (in 1986).

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