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English: CT scan in the median plane (with a 3 cm thick maximum intensity projection ) of a 66 year old man who received a port for chemotherapy for a pancreatic cancer . It shows that the tip of the port is placed in the azygos vein . As of upload date, it has remained functional for therapy for 9 months, although there have been occasional problems aspirating from it.
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Mikael Häggström , M.D. Author info
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