Fishing a floating port-a-cath fragment from the right heart chambers

We present the case of a 52-year-old man with pancreatic cancer who had a port-a-cath implanted for chemotherapy 4 years ago and was referred to our hospital for extraction. This was an incidental finding after a routine chest X-ray. The X-ray showed detachment of the distal port-a-cath fragment whi...

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Main Authors: Konstantinos Theodoropoulos, Konstantinos Tsakiridis, Antonios Kouparanis, Antonios Ziakas, George Kassimis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Termedia Publishing House 2022-04-01
Series:Advances in Interventional Cardiology
Online Access:https://www.termedia.pl/Fishing-a-floating-port-a-cath-fragment-from-the-right-heart-chambers,35,46877,1,1.html