Abstract
A 69-year-old patient with a malignant right pleural effusion experienced an inadvertent chest tube insertion through the hepatic vein, which ended up in the right ventricle. This rare complication occurred using a 14-Fr Thal-Quick chest tube (Seldinger method). The chest tube was successfully removed in a non-operative approach.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1091-1092 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| Journal | European Journal of Cardio-thoracic Surgery |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1 May 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© The Author(s) 2018. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Association for Cardio-Thoracic Surgery. All rights reserved.
Keywords
- Guidewire
- Hepatic vein embolization
- Malpositioned tube
- Pleural effusion
- Seldinger technique
- Thal-Quick chest tube
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