title: Fixed intravascular foreign bodies: a new method for removal.
abstract: Percutaneous removal of centrally located, embolized, intravascular foreign bodies is essential. A technique was developed to shift fixed foreign bodies into a position where they may be grasped and eventually removed with a snare or Dormia basket. It involves insertion by bilateral femoral vein puncture of a curved-end catheter and a second catheter attached to a Dormia basket set. A wire passed through the first catheter is grasped with the Dormia basket, and the foreign body is mobilized by means of traction on both catheter systems.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University of Vienna Medical School, Austria.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Grabenwoeger
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Dock
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Pinterits
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Appel
mesh_terms: D001808:Blood Vessels; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods; D005547:Foreign Bodies / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D010138:Pacemaker, Artificial; D011859:Radiography