A 66-Year-Old Man with Intrapleural Leakage of Parenteral Nutrition Fluid Due to a Malpositioned Central Venous Catheter

Jakob Van Herck; Wouter Snoeck; Marc Vanhoof; Helena Van Damme; Lynn Decoster

doi:10.12659/AJCR.948181

14 August 2025 : Case report Belgium

A 66-Year-Old Man with Intrapleural Leakage of Parenteral Nutrition Fluid Due to a Malpositioned Central Venous Catheter

Challenging differential diagnosis, Rare disease

Jakob Van Herck^{ABCDEF 1,2*}, Wouter Snoeck^{ABCDEF 1,3}, Marc Vanhoof^{ABCDEF 4}, Helena Van Damme^{ABCDEF 5}, Lynn Decoster^{ABCDEF 1}

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.948181

Am J Case Rep 2025; 26:e948181

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Figure 4 Chest X-ray after removal of chest tubes, endotracheal tube and left central venous catheter. White thick arrow shows the central venous catheter in the right internal jugular vein with the catheter tip in de superior cava vein.

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