A case of catheter fracture of a totally implantable access port introduced through the right internal jugular vein.

摘要

Totally implantable access ports (TIAPs) have been widely used for the safe delivery of chemotherapy or parenteral nutrition in patients with malignant disease and other debilitating diseases [1,2]. The pinch-off syndrome has been used to explain the fracture of catheters inserted through the subclavicular vein. The incidence of catheter fracture by the pinch-off syndrome is reported to be 1.1-5.0% [3,4]. To prevent the occurrence of catheter fracture in this manner, some researchers recommended that the catheter of TIAP was inserted through the right internal jugular vein [5,6]. We encountered an extremely rare case of catheter fracture of TIAP introduced through the right internal jugular vein. To the best of our knowledge, only one similar report has been published to date.