Complication of an implantable venous access device (Port-a-Cath®) during intermittent continuous infusion of chemotherapy

European Journal of Cancer Part A

Volumn 32, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2262-2266

  Poorter, R L ^b   Lauw, F N ^a   Bemelman, W A ^a   Bakker, P J M ^b   Taat, C W ^a   Veenhof, C H N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Continuous infusion; Port a Cath ; Venous access devive

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; CISPLATIN; EPIRUBICIN; FLOXURIDINE; FLUOROURACIL; IFOSFAMIDE;

ARTICLE; CANCER; COMPLICATION; DRUG EXTRAVASATION; DRUG INTERMITTENT THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFECTION; INFUSION SYSTEM; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THROMBOSIS; ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTION; CONTRAST MEDIUM EXTRAVASATION; EQUIPMENT; INFUSION PUMP; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFUSION PUMPS, IMPLANTABLE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMOTHORAX; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0030332489     PISSN: 09598049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-8049(96)00274-2     Document Type: Article

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