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Computed tomography-guided central venous catheter placement in a patient with superior vena cava and inferior vena
M A Rivero1, D W Shaw, R T Schaller
1Department of Radiology CH-69, Children's Hospital and Medical Center, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA.
Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology
|February 4, 1999
Abstract:
An 18-year-old man with a gastrointestinal hypomotility syndrome required lifelong parenteral nutrition. Both the superior and inferior vena cava were occluded. Computed tomography guidance was used to place a long-term central venous catheter via a large tributary to the azygos vein.