Spontaneously Migrated Tip of an Implantable Port Catheter into the Axillary Vein in a Patient with Severe Cough and the Subsequent Intervention to Reposition It.
- Author:
Kyung Sik AHN
1
;
Kweon YOO
;
In Ho CHA
;
Tae Seok SEO
Author Information
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords: Catheters and catheterization, complications; Veins, interventional procedure; Chemoport
- MeSH: Axillary Vein; Catheters, Indwelling/*adverse effects; Cough/*complications; Device Removal/*methods; Foreign-Body Migration/*etiology/radiography; Heart Atria; Humans; Lung Neoplasms/drug therapy; Male; Middle Aged
- From:Korean Journal of Radiology 2008;9(Suppl):S81-S84
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: Migration of an implantable port catheter tip is one of the well-known complications of this procedure, but the etiology of this problem is not clear. We describe here a case of migration of the tip of a port catheter from the right atrium to the right axillary vein in a patient with severe cough. Coughing was suggested for this case as the cause of the catheter tip migration. We corrected the position of the catheter tip via transfemoral snaring.
