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Case Reports
. 2011 Nov;102(11):442-3.
doi: 10.1701/975.10609.

[Time-delay to avoid: delayed recovery of a percutaneous central venous catheter fractured and embolized in the pulmonary artery]

[Article in Italian]
Luigi Sauro  1 , Rosario Sauro, Fiore Manganelli, Francesco Rotondi
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Case Reports

[Time-delay to avoid: delayed recovery of a percutaneous central venous catheter fractured and embolized in the pulmonary artery]

[Article in Italian]
Luigi Sauro et al. Recenti Prog Med. 2011 Nov.

Abstract

We report the case of a 68-year-old man with a fracture of the catheter of a port-a-cath, dislodged into the right atrium. Two days after the diagnosis, the fragment embolized into the lobar artery of the left lower lung lobe. The catheter was removed using a gooseneck snare.

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