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Hickman to central venous catheter: A case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia

Chemotherapy in children suffering from cancer usually requires placement of an indwelling central venous catheter (CVC). A child may need to undergo repeated procedures because of infection and occlusion of previous access devices. We present a case of CVC insertion in a child suffering from acute...

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Autores principales: Chakraborty, Arunangshu, Agrawal, Sanjit, Datta, Taniya, Mitra, Suparna, Khemka, Rakhi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27695218
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.186558
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author Chakraborty, Arunangshu
Agrawal, Sanjit
Datta, Taniya
Mitra, Suparna
Khemka, Rakhi
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description Chemotherapy in children suffering from cancer usually requires placement of an indwelling central venous catheter (CVC). A child may need to undergo repeated procedures because of infection and occlusion of previous access devices. We present a case of CVC insertion in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia where an innovative technique was employed.
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spelling pubmed-49808872016-10-01 Hickman to central venous catheter: A case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia Chakraborty, Arunangshu Agrawal, Sanjit Datta, Taniya Mitra, Suparna Khemka, Rakhi J Indian Assoc Pediatr Surg Technical Innovation Chemotherapy in children suffering from cancer usually requires placement of an indwelling central venous catheter (CVC). A child may need to undergo repeated procedures because of infection and occlusion of previous access devices. We present a case of CVC insertion in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia where an innovative technique was employed. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4980887/ /pubmed/27695218 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.186558 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Journal of Indian Association of Pediatric Surgeons http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Chakraborty, Arunangshu
Agrawal, Sanjit
Datta, Taniya
Mitra, Suparna
Khemka, Rakhi
Hickman to central venous catheter: A case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia
title Hickman to central venous catheter: A case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia
title_full Hickman to central venous catheter: A case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia
title_fullStr Hickman to central venous catheter: A case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia
title_full_unstemmed Hickman to central venous catheter: A case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia
title_short Hickman to central venous catheter: A case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia
title_sort hickman to central venous catheter: a case of difficult venous access in a child suffering from acute lymphoblastic leukemia
topic Technical Innovation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4980887/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27695218
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0971-9261.186558
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