Absence of the superior vena cava: Difficulties for pacemaker implantation

PACE - Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1103-1105

  Del Ojo, J Leal ^a,b   Jimenez, C Delgado ^a   Vilches, P Jimenez ^a   Serrano, A Lesmes ^a   Gutierrez, F Lozano ^a   Rodriguez, J Beltran ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE VALME   (Spain)

^b Dept of Intensive Care Med Hosp ^*  (Spain)

Author keywords

Anomaly; Azygos; Epigastric; External iliac; Pacemaker; Superior vena cava

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AZYGOS VEIN; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FEMORAL VEIN; HUMAN; ILIAC VEIN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; MALE; PACEMAKER ELECTRODE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PHLEBOTOMY; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; VEIN MALFORMATION; VEIN PUNCTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; HEART BLOCK; HUMANS; ILIAC VEIN; MALE; PACEMAKER, ARTIFICIAL; PHLEBOGRAPHY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0032794623     PISSN: 01478389     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.1999.tb00580.x     Document Type: Article

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