Radiology Implanted Forearm Ports: A Review of the Literature

Forearm port implantation had high technical success rates (range, 98%-100%; mean, 99.7%). A wide variety of complications were encountered, none of which exceeded the Society of Interventional Radiology threshold levels for complications associated with port insertion. A subset of the studies were upper arm venipunctures with the port catheter and housing subsequently implanted in the forearm distal to the antecubital fossa.