Uneventful 25-year course of an intracardiac intravenous catheter fragment in the right heart

Journal of Interventional Cardiology

Volumn 15, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 421-423

  Van Den Akker Berman, Lily M ^a,c   Pinzur, Sergey ^a   Aydinalp, Alp ^a   Brezins, Marc ^a   Gellerman, Marc ^a   Elami, Amir ^b   Roguin, Nathan ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HADASSAH HEBREW UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c Nahariya Hospital Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS CATHETER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0036776199     PISSN: 08964327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8183.2002.tb01080.x     Document Type: Article

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