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Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann · Aug 2008
Case ReportsRetrieval of broken paravertebral catheter by video-assisted thoracic surgery.
- Alan D L Sihoe, Subid R Das, Leong-Chow Ling, and Lik-Cheung Cheng.
- Department of Surgery, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Grantham Hospital, The University of Hong Kong, Aberdeen, Hong Kong SAR, China. adls1@lycos.com
- Asian Cardiovasc Thorac Ann. 2008 Aug 1;16(4):321-3.
AbstractA paravertebral catheter was placed in a 34-year-old man to provide analgesia after a right upper lobectomy. On removal, the catheter broke within the chest wall. Although bedside exploration and computed tomography scanning failed to locate it, the 13-cm long retained fragment was easily retrieved by video-assisted thoracic surgery, using a single-port technique.
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