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To the Editor,
Children with cancer need long-term venous access due to the long duration of therapy. Long-term totally implantable port devices (TIPDs) are widely used in these patients for administration of chemotherapeutic agents, parenteral nutrition, fluids, and blood products [1,2]. Fracture and embolism of TIPDs are rare complications but may cause serious results and mortality, including pulmonary artery embolism, sepsis, arrhythmias, and perforation of the caval vein [3,4,5]. Herein, we present a 9-yearold male patient with pre-B acute lymphoblastic leukemia who was admitted to the outpatient pediatric hematology and oncology clinic at the 13th month of maintenance therapy due to new onset of non-flushing catheter. The patient had...