Intravascular catheterization access for injection and sampling is one of the most common experimental surgical procedures.Catheters and ports have been designed to reduce the problems of occlusion, ...

Furthermore, the recommendation that a non-infected, still functioning port catheter should be surgically removed is wrong, or at least cannot be adequately justified. There is insufficient ...

All patients had the same type of TIVAD implanted: an M.R.I. Implantable Port with open end 8 French polyurethane single lumen venous catheter (C. R. Bard, Inc. Murray Hill, New Jersey ...