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The Sheared Central Venous Catheter?

A fractured central venous catheter (CVC) with embolization of the distal fragment may lead to life-threatening complications. We had inserted a right subclavian CVC in a 68-year-old female which upon a follow-up chest X-ray appeared to have been sheared. A guidewire was inserted through the CVC unt...

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Autores principales: Hegde, Harihar V., Yaliwal, Vijay G., Joshi, Shyamsundar K., Rao, P. Raghavendra
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2011
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3350231/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22606388
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2011/379827