title: Spontaneously migrated tip of an implantable port catheter into the axillary vein in a patient with severe cough and the subsequent intervention to reposition it.
abstract: Migration of an implantable port catheter tip is one of the well-known complications of this procedure, but the etiology of this problem is not clear. We describe here a case of migration of the tip of a port catheter from the right atrium to the right axillary vein in a patient with severe cough. Coughing was suggested for this case as the cause of the catheter tip migration. We corrected the position of the catheter tip via transfemoral snaring.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul, Korea.
authors.forename: Kyung-Sik
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Ahn
authors.forename: Kweon
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yoo
authors.forename: In Ho
authors.initials: IH
authors.lastname: Cha
authors.forename: Tae-Seok
authors.initials: TS
authors.lastname: Seo
mesh_terms: D001367:Axillary Vein; D002408:Catheters, Indwelling / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003371:Cough / Q000150:complications*; D020878:Device Removal / Q000379:methods*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology*; D006325:Heart Atria; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography