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Safety of lumbar drains in thoracic aortic operations performed with extracorporeal circulation
Albert T Cheung, MD, Alberto Pochettino, MD, Dmitri V Guvakov, MD, Stuart J Weiss, MD, PhD, Skandan Shanmugan, BA, Joseph E Bavaria, MD The Annals of Thoracic Surgery Volume 76, Issue 4, Pages (October 2003) DOI: /S (03)
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Fig 1 (Left) Intact 0.7 mm intradermal × 1.5 mm outside diameter silicon elastomer lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) drainage catheter with a black mark indicating the distal tip (A: top catheter). A lumbar CSF catheter with a fractured tip (from patient 4) is shown for comparison (B: bottom catheter; right panel). (Right) The catheter fractured between two side-port perforations (arrow). The Annals of Thoracic Surgery , DOI: ( /S (03) )
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