Porty dożylne u pacjentów onkologicznych. Analiza sześciu lat stosowania portów dożylnych w Centrum Onkologii Ziemi Lubelskiej

Abstract

Author(s): RAFAL MLYNARSKI

The article presents a retrospective analysis of implantation of venous ports in Lublin Cancer Centre in the period of 1999-2005 years. It describes complications connected with the treatment, such as artery puncture, heamorrhage, haematoma, and appearing in the process of using ports, such as local and systemic infection, cutaneous erosion, fibrin cuff of the catheter end, thrombophlebitis. The paper presents also ways of therapeutic proceedings. In that period over 200 ports were installed and the vast majority of them in the last two years. The majority of patients lives up to the present day and still uses ports.

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