Catheter fracture and embolization: A rare complication of a long- implanted venous access system;Katheterbreuk en -embolisatie: Een zeldzame complicatie van een langdurig geimplanteerd intraveneus kathetersysteem

Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde

Volumn 144, Issue 28, 2000, Pages 1360-1363

  Mazel, J W ^a   Idenburg, F J ^a,b   Van Delden, O M ^a  

^a MEDICAL CENTER HAAGLANDEN   (Netherlands)

^b ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BREAST CANCER; BREAST METASTASIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; EMBOLISM; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; REOPERATION; SUBCLAVIAN VEIN;

EID: 0034622347     PISSN: 00282162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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