Malposition of a catheter in the persistent left superior vena cava. A rare complication of totally implantable venous devices [3]

Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 145-147

  Kao, C L ^a   Chang, J P ^a  

^a CHANG GUNG MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT;

ADULT; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETER; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; COR TRIATRIATUM; CORONARY SINUS; DEVICE INFECTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FLUID THERAPY; HEART ATRIUM SEPTUM DEFECT; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MALIGNANT HISTIOCYTOSIS; MITRAL VALVE ATRESIA; SUPERIOR CAVA VEIN; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ADULT; CARDIOVASCULAR ABNORMALITIES; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; HUMANS; MALE; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA, SUPERIOR;

EID: 0037732608     PISSN: 00219509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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