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Percutaneous retrieval of a deformed guidewire by a modified snaring technique
1Department of Radiology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis
|April 1, 1993
Abstract:
An attempt to percutaneously remove a guidewire from the inferior vena cava was hampered by kinks developing in the wire during snaring. A modified technique was adopted that permitted its retrieval, obviating the need for a formal venotomy.