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Conventional and endovascular treatment for a rare combination of diseases: superior vena cava syndrome and aortoiliac aneurysm - control after 12 months

The association between superior vena cava syndrome and an aorto-iliac aneurysm is not common. The approach to each of theses diseases can be either by the conventional way with open surgery or by endovascular techniques. We report the two methods of surgical intervention and discuss their indications and results in this particular case.

superior vena cava syndrome; iliac aneurysm; blood vessel prosthesis


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