The prognostic significance of the ball-valve effect in Groshong catheters

Supportive Care in Cancer

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 34-38

  Tolar, Blair ^a   Gould, James R ^a  

^a Oncology Associates of West Kentucky   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Catheter; Complications; Groshong; Venous access

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOPHLEBITIS;

EID: 0029685768     PISSN: 09414355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01769873     Document Type: Article

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