Disconnection of a venous Port-A-Cath followed by embolization after saline flush: Rare case report

Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology

Volumn 29, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 643-645

  Lam, Angela Wai Chi ^a   Chen, Yuh Min ^a,b   Yang, Kuang Yao ^a   Tsai, Chun Ming ^a   Perng, Reury Perng ^a  

^a NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Chemotherapy; Complication; Embolization; Port catheter systems

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; EMBOLISM; HUMAN; INDWELLING CATHETER; INSTRUMENTATION; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIVER VEIN; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA;

AGED; ANTINEOPLASTIC COMBINED CHEMOTHERAPY PROTOCOLS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EMBOLISM; HEPATIC VEINS; HUMANS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

EID: 0033257033     PISSN: 03682811     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jjco/29.12.643     Document Type: Article

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