Chronic Abdominal Pain and Upper Gastrointestinal Bleeding Due to Duodenal Perforation Caused by Migrated Inferior Vena Cava Filter

Abstract

The authors describe an unusual case of a 41-year-old man presenting with chronic abdominal pain and gastrointestinal bleeding caused by a migrated inferior vena cava filter eroding into the duodenum.

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