title: Percutaneous extraction of centrally embolized foreign bodies: a report of 16 cases.
abstract: Sixteen cases of centrally embolized foreign bodies are reported (eight catheter fragments, two guide wires, four pacemaker electrodes, one ventriculo-atrial shunt, one Port-A-Cath catheter). In all patients only the Dormia basket was used. Foreign body extraction was successful in all patients except one, in which removal of a pacemaker electrode from the myocardium failed. Technical aspects as well as complications of percutaneous foreign body extraction are discussed.
authors.affiliation: 2nd Department of Surgery, University of Vienna Medical School, Austria.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grabenwoeger
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Bardach
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dock
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pinterits
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002405:Catheterization, Central Venous / Q000009:adverse effects; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004617:Embolism / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D004868:Equipment Failure; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006321:Heart; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007601:Jugular Veins / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008722:Methods; D008875:Middle Aged; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial / Q000009:adverse effects; D011651:Pulmonary Artery / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D011859:Radiography; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging