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Computed Tomography-Guided Central Venous Catheter Placement in a Patient with Superior Vena Cava and Inferior Vena Cava Occlusion

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An 18-year-old man with a gastrointestinal hypomotility syndrome required lifelong parenteral nutrition. Both the superior and inferior vena cava were occluded. Computed tomography guidance was used to place a long-term central venous catheter via a large tributary to the azygos vein.

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  1. Department of Radiology CH-69, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA, US

    Maria A. Rivero & Dennis W.W. Shaw

  2. Department of Surgery, Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, 4800 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, WA 98105, USA, US

    Robert T. Schaller, Jr.

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Rivero, M., Shaw, D. & Schaller, Jr., R. Computed Tomography-Guided Central Venous Catheter Placement in a Patient with Superior Vena Cava and Inferior Vena Cava Occlusion. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 22, 81–83 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s002709900336

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