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Citation |
Tapping CR, Gallo A, De Silva RJ, Uberoi R. Cardiovasc. Intervent. Radiol. 2012; 35(6): 1496-1499. |
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Affiliation |
Department of Radiology, Oxford University Hospitals, John Radcliffe Hospital, Headington, Oxford, OX3 9DS, UK. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2012, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group) |
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22194057 |
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Abstract |
We present a case of endovascular retrieval of a penetrating foreign body that was originally lodged in the mediastinum and then migrated to the hepatic vein. The steel nail entered the thorax and traversed the left lung causing a pneumothorax. The patient underwent a thoracotomy, but the foreign body had migrated from its original mediastinal position. A postsurgical CT showed that the object was below the right hemidiaphragm. Diagnostic venogram demonstrated that the object was in the main hepatic vein. Using a double-snare technique, the object was safely and successfully removed from the hepatic vein via the right common femoral vein. Language: en |