Pitfalls in Portacath location using the landmark technique: case report

A 34 year old woman diagnosed with breast cancer and liver metastases underwent a left subclavian Portacath insertion. During the procedure, the clinical features and the findings of intra-operative investigations provided conflicting evidence of the catheter position. This report highlights the pot...

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Autores principales: Wyles, Susannah M, Browne, Garry, Gui, Gerald PH
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1891304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17547779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-4-13
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description A 34 year old woman diagnosed with breast cancer and liver metastases underwent a left subclavian Portacath insertion. During the procedure, the clinical features and the findings of intra-operative investigations provided conflicting evidence of the catheter position. This report highlights the potential difficulties in establishing long-term central venous access, the limitations of common investigations and safety issues relating to the process of subclavian line insertion.
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spelling pubmed-18913042007-06-13 Pitfalls in Portacath location using the landmark technique: case report Wyles, Susannah M Browne, Garry Gui, Gerald PH Int Semin Surg Oncol Case Report A 34 year old woman diagnosed with breast cancer and liver metastases underwent a left subclavian Portacath insertion. During the procedure, the clinical features and the findings of intra-operative investigations provided conflicting evidence of the catheter position. This report highlights the potential difficulties in establishing long-term central venous access, the limitations of common investigations and safety issues relating to the process of subclavian line insertion. BioMed Central 2007-06-05 /pmc/articles/PMC1891304/ /pubmed/17547779 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-4-13 Text en Copyright © 2007 Wyles et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Pitfalls in Portacath location using the landmark technique: case report
title Pitfalls in Portacath location using the landmark technique: case report
title_full Pitfalls in Portacath location using the landmark technique: case report
title_fullStr Pitfalls in Portacath location using the landmark technique: case report
title_full_unstemmed Pitfalls in Portacath location using the landmark technique: case report
title_short Pitfalls in Portacath location using the landmark technique: case report
title_sort pitfalls in portacath location using the landmark technique: case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1891304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17547779
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7800-4-13
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