Retained Catheter Fragment from a Fractured Tunneled Catheter-A Rare and Potentially Lethal Complication

Seminars in Dialysis

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 536-539

  Reddy, Anand ^a   Stangl, Anondo ^a   Radbill, Brian ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CENTRAL VENOUS CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOREIGN BODY; HUMAN; INCIDENTAL FINDING; INSTRUMENTATION; JUGULAR VEIN; RADIOGRAPHY; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY;

ADULT; CATHETERIZATION, CENTRAL VENOUS; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INCIDENTAL FINDINGS; JUGULAR VEINS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; RENAL DIALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 78049441059     PISSN: 08940959     EISSN: 1525139X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-139X.2010.00756.x     Document Type: Article

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