Experience with the Port-a-Cath device in children;Erfahrungen mit dem Port-A-Cath-system bei kindern

Schweizerische Medizinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 130, Issue 20, 2000, Pages 732-738

  Wildhaber, B ^a,b   Kistler, W ^a   Caflisch, U ^a  

^a Kinderspital Luzern ^*  (Switzerland)

^b Universitats Kinderklinik   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Central venous access device; Central venous catheter complication

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; CATHETER INFECTION; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHILD; HUMAN; IMPLANTATION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; VASCULAR ACCESS;

ADOLESCENT; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EQUIPMENT CONTAMINATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE ANALYSIS; FACTOR XIII DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFANT; LEUKEMIA; MALE; NEOPLASMS; SEPSIS; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0034690681     PISSN: 00367672     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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