Hinojosa Mena-Bernal M C, Fernández Martínez I, Ergueta Martín P, González Sarmiento E
Servicio de Medicina Interna, Hospital Universitario, Valladolid.
An Med Interna. 1998 Oct;15(10):531-3.
Superior vena cava syndrome (SVCS) is an uncommon disease which receives usually bad prognostic. In order to study the prevalence of the different etiologies we have reviewed retrospectively 17 documented cases of SVCS in the last 5 years.
The range of age was between 43 and 80 years Sex distribution was 16 males and 1 female.
Malignant pathology was by large the most common etiology. Oat cell and squamous cell carcinoma account each for 20%, adenocarcinoma for 18%, undifferenciated carcinoma for 12% and Hodgkin's disease for 6%. Among the benign causes we have found a case of retroesternal goiter.
上腔静脉综合征（SVCS）是一种罕见疾病，通常预后不良。为研究不同病因的发生率，我们回顾性分析了过去5年里17例有记录的上腔静脉综合征病例。
年龄范围在43岁至80岁之间。性别分布为16例男性和1例女性。
恶性病变是最常见的病因。燕麦细胞癌和鳞状细胞癌各占20%，腺癌占18%，未分化癌占12%，霍奇金病占6%。在良性病因中，我们发现1例胸骨后甲状腺肿。
