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  2. Port (medicine) - Wikipedia

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    A port is most commonly inserted as an outpatient surgery procedure in a hospital or clinic by an interventional radiologist or surgeon, under moderate sedation. Implantation is increasingly performed by interventional radiologists due to advancements in techniques and their facile use of imaging technologies.

  3. Vascular access for chemotherapy - Wikipedia

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    In medicine, vascular access is a means of accessing the bloodstream through the peripheral or central blood vessels in order to obtain blood or deliver medications including chemotherapy. A vascular access procedure involves insertion of a sterile plastic tube called a catheter into a blood vessel. Types of catheters can be either peripherally ...

  4. Portal vein embolization - Wikipedia

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    Preoperative PVE is a very well tolerated procedure with extremely low mortality rates (0.1 percent) and technical failure rates (0.4 percent). [3] Complication rates from the procedure are low as well (2–3 percent) and include portal vein thrombosis, liver infarction, necrosis, infection, pneumothorax, and other risks as listed above. [3]

  5. Michael Strahan’s daughter Isabella Strahan hospitalized ...

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    Cleared to leave after having her chemo port cleaned, a process she said was “really painful,” Isabella was rushed back to the ER within hours. ... “I would say I prefer brain surgery to ...

  6. Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization - Wikipedia

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    Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a minimally invasive procedure performed in interventional radiology to restrict a tumor's blood supply. Small embolic particles coated with chemotherapeutic drugs are injected selectively through a catheter into an artery directly supplying the tumor.

  7. Michael Strahan's Daughter Isabella Gets Chemotherapy Port ...

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    Isabella Strahan is excited after her chemo port was surgically removed by doctors.Michael Strahan's 19-year-old daughter shared the happy news Wednesday on her vlog, where she's detailed her road ...

  8. Central venous catheter - Wikipedia

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    Implanted central venous catheter Implanted port. The "nipples" which define the clinician's target area are here readily discerned. Gripper needle inserted in port. An implanted central venous catheter, also called a port a "cath" or "port-a-cath", is similar to a tunneled catheter, but is left entirely under the skin and is accessible via a ...

  9. Isabella Strahan Undergoes Surgery to Prepare for Chemo Amid ...

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    In the video, Isabella bravely fights her way through several unpleasant needle pokes as she prepares for surgery to place a chemo port. The device is placed on Isabe.