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This chapter discusses the case of a patient with end-stage renal disease who was referred to the dialysis access center for the placement of a tunneled dialysis catheter. In this case, the patient experienced a pneumothorax as a complication of the procedure.
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Beathard, G.A. (2017). Pneumothorax Occurring with Dialysis Catheter Insertion. In: Yevzlin, A., Asif , A., Redfield III, R., Beathard, G. (eds) Dialysis Access Cases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57500-1_38
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