✦ LIBER ✦
Lower-extremity deep venous thrombosis after upper-extremity port catheter placement: An unusual complication
✍ Scribed by Ismail Mihmanli; Murat Cantasdemir; Fatih Kantarci; Nil Molinas Mandel; Oktay Cokyuksel
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 228 KB
- Volume
- 30
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0091-2751
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✦ Synopsis
We describe the case of a woman with breast carcinoma who experienced deep venous thrombosis of the right lower extremity after placement of a double-lumen central venous chemotherapy port catheter in the left upper extremity. Color Doppler sonography revealed a linear tubular structure within the right common femoral vein and sonographic features of thrombosis, suggesting deep venous thrombosis secondary to displacement of the port catheter.