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Fatality Due to Subclavian Dialysis Catheter

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1981

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Abstract

A patient is described who died as a result of using a subclavian dialysis catheter. At post mortem a perforation of the superior vena cava leading to hemopericardium as well as a large thrombus in a brachiocephalic vein were found.