Two cases of young girl with left leg edema were detected thrombosis of the left iliac vein.
CASE 1: A 28 year-old woman with left leg edema for 1 week. D-Dimer: 4,830 ng/mL
CASE 2: A 22 year-old girl with left leg edema for 3 weeks, D-Dimer: 3 840ng/mL.
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From Radiopeadia
May-Thurner syndrome refers to a chronic compression of the left common iliac vein (CIV) against the lumbar vertebrae by the overlying right common iliac artery (CIA), with or without deep venous thrombosis 2.
Although both left and right CIVs lie deep to the right common iliac artery, the left CIV has a more transverse course and is predisposed to compression whereas the right CIV ascends more vertically and is therefore not similarly predisposed.
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