Correspondence Huber Cannula Releases Silicone Particles From Port Dtsch Arztebl Int 2011; 108 (30): 523. DOI: 10.3238/arztebl.2011.0523a ...

Chemotherapy is a common treatment following a breast cancer diagnosis. It may involve insertion of a port-a-catheter, or “port.” Here are five things to know about ports.

Also called an implanted port, port-a-cath or medi-port, a chemo port has two parts: the port and the catheter. The port is a quarter-sized plastic or metal disc. (If you have the metal kind, don ...

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Adults beginning a course of intravenous chemotherapy at two university-affiliated hospitals were randomly allocated to have venous access using a surgically implanted venous ...

Flushing of port-a-caths for cancer patients is now also taking place in certain health centres, Health Minister chris Fearne has said. A port-a-cath system consists of two parts, the port ...

As early as in 1988, Haindl and Müller (1) as well as Müller and Zierski (2) were able to show that the Huber cannula, which was developed in the 1950s, releases silicone particles from the port ...