Is routine chest X-ray mandatory after fluoroscopy-guided totally implantable venous access device insertion?
The very low incidence of immediate complications detected by postprocedural chest X-ray suggests that such a control is not mandatory as a routine method after fluoroscopy-guided TIVAD insertion mainly performed by venous cutdown. X-ray should be performed only in cases of clinical suspicion.
Within the limitations of this study, bone strain resulting from dental implant loading was distributed to cortices not only adjacent to but also distant from dental implants. The large-diameter implant was more facilitative of stress transfer to cortical bone than the small-diameter implant tested.