Journal article
Fatality Due to Subclavian Dialysis Catheter
Abstract
A patient is described who died as a result of using a subclavian dialysis catheter. At post mortem a perforation of the superior vena cava leading to hemopericardium as well as a large thrombus in a brachiocephalic vein were found.
Authors
Fine A; Churchill D; Gault H; Mathieson G
Journal
Nephron, Vol. 29, No. 1-2, pp. 99–100
Publisher
Karger Publishers
Publication Date
1981
DOI
10.1159/000182248
ISSN
1660-8151