Port Surgery. Implantation is increasingly performed by interventional radiologists due to advancements in techniques and their facile use of imaging technologies. It will make it easier for your healthcare team to.
Single port surgery is surgery that is performed through a single port or incision in a patient s navel belly button. It usually takes 30 45 minutes. You may hear it called an implanted venous access device ivad a port a cath or a central line.
The port gets placed under your skin usually near your collarbone.
Medicine and fluids injected into the port flow from. It usually takes 30 45 minutes. Your chemo port is implanted during an outpatient procedure meaning that you don t have to stay in a hospital for the procedure. 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.
