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Percutaneous extraction of centrally embolized foreign bodies: a report of 16 cases
F Grabenwoeger1, G Bardach, W Dock
12nd Department of Surgery, University of Vienna Medical School, Austria.
The British Journal of Radiology
|November 1, 1988
Abstract:
Sixteen cases of centrally embolized foreign bodies are reported (eight catheter fragments, two guide wires, four pacemaker electrodes, one ventriculo-atrial shunt, one Port-A-Cath catheter). In all patients only the Dormia basket was used. Foreign body extraction was successful in all patients except one, in which removal of a pacemaker electrode from the myocardium failed. Technical aspects as well as complications of percutaneous foreign body extraction are discussed.