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Alexandre Trigano1, Christophe D'Ivernois, Samuel Levy
1Department of Cardiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Marseille, France. alexandre.trigano@mail.ap-hm.fr
Abstract:
Following cephalic venous cutdown, an unexpected preclavicular course was used in two cases for a pacemaker and a defibrillator lead implantation. This very rare anomaly was documented by cephalic venogram but did not cause any significant intraoperative difficulty during single lead implantation.
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