Techniques in Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 184-185, December 2011

A Concise History of Central Venous Access

  • Michael V. Beheshti, MD

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Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Radiology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR

Central venous access has become a mainstay of modern interventional radiology practice. Its history has paralleled and enabled many current medical therapies. This short overview provides an interesting historical perspective of these increasingly common interventional procedures.

Keywords: venous access, image-guided, central, catheter

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 For an excellent review of the history of central venous access, the reader is referred to Peters JL: The history of central venous access, in Hamilton H, Bodenham AR (eds): Central Venous Catheters. Oxford, UK, Wiley-Blackwell, 2009, pp 1-12.

PII: S1089-2516(11)00069-2

doi:10.1053/j.tvir.2011.05.002

Techniques in Vascular & Interventional Radiology
Volume 14, Issue 4 , Pages 184-185, December 2011

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