[Arterial port-catheter dislocation into the duodenum]

Zentralbl Chir. 2002 Feb;127(2):144-6. doi: 10.1055/s-2002-22021.
[Article in German]

Abstract

Arterial port-catheter dislocations into the duodenum are rare complications. We report on a 64-year-old male with sigmoid-resection for carcinoma, left hemihepatectomy and arterial port-catheter implantation into the common hepatic artery for liver metastases in both lobes and partial dislocation of the port system into the duodenum. Therefore, the port-catheter system had to be explanted after 8 cycles of cytostatic therapy and the duodenum had to be closed by a suture. Six months after surgery the patient felt well, a new singular metastasis in the right liver lobe could be treated successfully by laserinduced thermotherapy. At present the patient has no evidence for another metastasis.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Catheters, Indwelling / adverse effects*
  • Chemotherapy, Adjuvant
  • Combined Modality Therapy
  • Duodenoscopy
  • Duodenum / pathology
  • Duodenum / surgery*
  • Foreign-Body Migration / diagnosis
  • Foreign-Body Migration / surgery*
  • Hepatic Artery
  • Humans
  • Infusions, Intra-Arterial
  • Liver Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Liver Neoplasms / secondary
  • Liver Neoplasms / surgery
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / drug therapy
  • Sigmoid Neoplasms / surgery