Totally implantable venous catheters for chemotherapy: experience in 500 patients

CONTEXT: Totally implantable devices are increasingly being utilized for chemotherapy treatment of oncological patients, although few studies have been done in our environment to analyze the results obtained from the implantation and utilization of such catheters. OBJECTIVE: To study the results obt...

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Main Authors: Nelson Wolosker, Guilherme Yazbek, Kenji Nishinari, Luiz Caetano Malavolta, Marco Antonio Munia, Marcel Langer, Antonio Eduardo Zerati
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802004000400003&lng=en&tlng=en