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Abdominal aortic perforation by an umbilical arterial catheter
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- Published on: 17 September 2019
- Published on: 17 September 2019Not necessarily aortic perofration
Thank you for an interesting case but the position of the arterial catheter after the perforation suggests to me that this was from an umbilical artery rather than the aorta (compare the path on the abdominal wall on the 2 x-rays).
This may therefore be why you were able to successfully manage this conservatively.
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