Malposition of a dialysis catheter in the accessory hemiazygos vein

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 83, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 883-885

  Muhm, Manfred ^a   Sunder Plassmann, Gere ^a   Druml, Wilfred ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; BACKACHE; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; HEMODIALYSIS; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADULT; AZYGOS VEIN; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; HUMANS; JUGULAR VEINS; MALE; RENAL DIALYSIS; RIBS; THROMBOSIS; VEINS; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0029972372     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-199610000-00042     Document Type: Article

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