Percutaneous Removal of a Knotted Pulmonary Artery Catheter Using Sheaths and Parallel Crossing Wires

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 813-814

  Gaba, Ron C ^a   Bui, James T ^a   West, Derek L ^a   Owens, Charles A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; CATHETER REMOVAL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CORONARY ARTERY BYPASS SURGERY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FLUOROSCOPY; HEART ARREST; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LETTER; MALE; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PULMONARY ARTERY CATHETER; RESUSCITATION; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; CATHETERIZATION, SWAN-GANZ; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMANS; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 34249012783     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.03.016     Document Type: Letter

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