Deep Venous Thrombosis in a Patient with Duplication of the Common Iliac Vein.

A congenital abnormality of the inferior vena cava is said to be an anatomical risk factor for venous thromboembolism. In this report, we present a case of a patient with a left duplicated common iliac vein who developed a venous thromboembolism following total abdominal hysterectomy and bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy. Only 2 items were risk factors for thromboembolism: age of ≥40 years and open surgery duration of ≥30 min; no congenital abnormalities of the inferior vena cava or thrombotic factors were observed. Thus, it was suspected that the duplicated common iliac vein could have caused the venous thromboembolism.