Implantation of port-catheter system for hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy with catheter tip fixation in a patient with celiac arterial obstruction.

摘要

Although it is a somewhat cumbersome procedure and requires meticulous care in the retrieval of the once-implanted catheter, the fixed catheter tip technique has been given attention as a useful method to percutaneously implant a hepatic arterial infusion port for repeated hepatic arterial infusion chemotherapy. With the most common fixed catheter tip method , the catheter is inserted through the celiac artery to the gastroduodenal artery and a side hole, is made in the indwelling catheter at the common hepatic artery ostium.