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renal vein

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renal vein [′rēn·əl ′vān]
(anatomy)
A vein which returns blood from the kidney to the vena cava.


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The primary tumor may extend to the renal veins or vena cava (large vein returning blood to the heart located in the middle of the abdomen near the back), but has only extended directly and not out of the local area of the kidney.
 
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