title: Potential use of a combined extractor in intravascular procedures.
abstract: Extraction techniques are gaining increasing attention in proportion to the increasing range of endovascular procedures. The choice of the instrumentarium depends, among other things, on whether the object to be extracted is a foreign body (most often a catheter) with or without a free end. This communication offers our experience with a combined extractor of our own manufacture allowing both central and lateral grasping techniques. The technique of catheterization is illustrated in one case.
authors.affiliation: Clinic of Cardiology, Institute for Clinical and Experimental Medicine, Videnska 1958/9, 146 22, Prague 4-Krc, Czech Republic. jan.sochman@medicon.cz
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Sochman
authors.forename: Jan H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Peregrin
mesh_terms: D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral / Q000295:instrumentation*; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling; D004867:Equipment Design; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006325:Heart Atria / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D015642:Radiology, Interventional / Q000295:instrumentation*; D014683:Vena Cava, Superior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging