Hepatic artery access ports: Recognizing and avoiding the problems

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery

Volumn 70, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 496-502

  Wickremesekera, Janaka K ^a   Cannan, Rebecca J ^a   Stubbs, Richard S ^a,b  

^a Wakefield Hospital   (New Zealand)

^b Wakefield Gastroenterology Research Institute   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Hepatic artery chemotherapy; Hepatic artery ports; Regional chemotherapy

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; FLUOROURACIL; YTTRIUM 90;

ARTERY BYPASS; ARTERY CATHETER; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EXTRAVASATION; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INTESTINE FISTULA; LIVER CANCER; SURGICAL ANATOMY; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BRACHYTHERAPY; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; COLLATERAL CIRCULATION; DUODENAL DISEASES; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; EXTRAVASATION OF DIAGNOSTIC AND THERAPEUTIC MATERIALS; FEMALE; FLUOROURACIL; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; INDICATORS AND REAGENTS; INJECTIONS, INTRA-ARTERIAL; INJECTIONS, INTRALESIONAL; INTESTINAL FISTULA; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; METHYLENE BLUE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; THROMBOSIS; YTTRIUM RADIOISOTOPES;

EID: 0033926718     PISSN: 00048682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1622.2000.01858.x     Document Type: Article

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