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A method to accurately estimate the catheter length needed for a tunneled central catheter placement

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A typical method of placing a tunneled central catheter utilizes C-arm fluoroscopy for insertion and estimation of the length of the catheter needed. We describe a new technique to estimate the length more accurately using a C-arm fluoroscope.

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  1. Department of Surgery, University of California San Francisco-East Bay, Oakland, CA, USA

    Mihir Chaudhary

  2. Division of Pediatric Surgery, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospitals, 744 52nd Street, Suite 4100, Oakland, CA, 94609, USA

    Olajire Idowu & Sunghoon Kim

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All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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Chaudhary, M., Idowu, O. & Kim, S. A method to accurately estimate the catheter length needed for a tunneled central catheter placement. Pediatr Surg Int 34, 693–696 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00383-018-4263-z

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