Management of a retained catheter in an arteriovenous malformation. Case report.

Bingöl, Hakan; Sirin, Gokçe; Akay, Hakki Tankut; Iyem, Hikmet; Demirkilic, Ufuk; Tatar, Harun · J Neurosurg · 2007

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Abstract

The long-term effects of retained catheters in patients are not well known; therefore, the clinical presentation may differ. The authors present the case of a 21-year-old man with a pseudoaneurysm of the left common femoral artery, which developed 3 months after a transfemoral microcatheter embolization of a cerebral arteriovenous malformation (AVM) in which the catheter was inadvertently glued into the AVM and was retained at the groin.

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