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Transcolonic Migration of Retained Epicardial Pacing Wires

Temporary epicardial pacing wires are associated with rare complications. Most of these occur in the chest. Even rarer are complications that occur within the abdomen. We report a case of migrating epicardial pacing wires entering the abdomen and penetrating the transverse colon found incidentally o...

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Autores principales: Gonzales, Sara, White, Hugh, Echavarria, Juan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26221560
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/416587
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description Temporary epicardial pacing wires are associated with rare complications. Most of these occur in the chest. Even rarer are complications that occur within the abdomen. We report a case of migrating epicardial pacing wires entering the abdomen and penetrating the transverse colon found incidentally on colonoscopy in an asymptomatic patient.
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spelling pubmed-44885732015-07-28 Transcolonic Migration of Retained Epicardial Pacing Wires Gonzales, Sara White, Hugh Echavarria, Juan Case Rep Radiol Case Report Temporary epicardial pacing wires are associated with rare complications. Most of these occur in the chest. Even rarer are complications that occur within the abdomen. We report a case of migrating epicardial pacing wires entering the abdomen and penetrating the transverse colon found incidentally on colonoscopy in an asymptomatic patient. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015 2015-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC4488573/ /pubmed/26221560 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/416587 Text en Copyright © 2015 Sara Gonzales et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Transcolonic Migration of Retained Epicardial Pacing Wires
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title_short Transcolonic Migration of Retained Epicardial Pacing Wires
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26221560
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