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Catheter fracture and embolization from an implanted venous access device

✍ Scribed by Chiung-Lun Kao; Jen-Ping Chang

Book ID: 117561615
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 57 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0736-4679
DOI: 10.1016/s0736-4679(01)00443-7

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