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Preclavicular Route Following Cephalic Venous Cutdown for Pacemaker or Defibrillator Lead Implantation
Author(s) -
TRIGANO ALEXANDRE,
D'IVERNOIS CHRISTOPHE,
LEVY SAMUEL,
HARTUNG OLIVIER,
ALIMI YVES
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
pacing and clinical electrophysiology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.686
H-Index - 101
eISSN - 1540-8159
pISSN - 0147-8389
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2007.00593.x
Subject(s) - medicine , cephalic vein , lead (geology) , surgery , cardiology , anesthesia , vein , geomorphology , geology
Following cephalic venous cutdown, an unexpected preclavicular course was used in two cases for a pacemaker and a defibrillator lead implantation. This very rare anomaly was documented by cephalic venogram but did not cause any significant intraoperative difficulty during single lead implantation.