Difficult removal of retrievable IVC filters: A description of the "double-wire restraining" technique

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 34, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages

  Owens, Charles A ^a   Bui, James T ^a   Knuttinen, M Grace ^a   Emmanuel, Neelmini ^a   Carrillo, Tami C ^a   Gaba, Ron C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Complication; Foreign body retrieval; IVC filter; Migration; Thromboembolic disease; Venous intervention

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEIN; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; DOUBLE WIRE RESTRAINING; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; HEMATOTHORAX; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; MALE; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THORACOCENTESIS; VEIN PERFORATION; VENA CAVA FILTER;

BRACHIOCEPHALIC VEINS; DEVICE REMOVAL; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RENAL VEINS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VENA CAVA FILTERS;

EID: 79959740009     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-010-9911-1     Document Type: Article

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