Uncommon complications of long-term hemodialysis catheters: Adhesion, migration, and perforation by the catheter tip

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 100-104

  Sequeira, Adrian ^a   Sachdeva, Bharat ^a   Abreo, Kenneth ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; TIME;

CATHETERIZATION; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL DIALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950272318     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2009.00681.x     Document Type: Article

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