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"Spontaneous" catheter fracture and embolization of a totally implanted venous access port
K G van der Hem1, S Meijer, C J Werter
1Department of Oncology, Free University Hospital, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
The Netherlands Journal of Medicine
|June 1, 1991
Abstract:
A case of "spontaneous" fracture of the catheter of a totally implanted venous access device is reported. The distal part of the catheter migrated into a pulmonary artery branch and could not be retrieved. The cause and consequences of this rare complication are discussed. It is emphasized that the integrity of a totally implanted venous access device should be ascertained before cytostatic agents are administered.