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The nutcracker syndrome is a compression of the left renal vein between the abdominal aorta (AA) and superior mesenteric artery (SMA).^[1]

↑ Sugimoto I, Takashi O, Ishibashi H, Takeuchi N, Nagata Y, Honda Y. Left Renal Vein Entrapment Syndrome (Nutcracker Syndrome) treated with Left Renal Vein Transposition. Jnp J Vasc Surg. 2001 10:503-507. Abstract.