Table 1.

Literature review of venous Port implantation through PLSVC

Year	Author(s)	n	Age (years)	Gender	Diagnosis	Azygos Vein Variation	Port Duration	Port-a-Cath Related Complications	PLSVC Type
2003	Laurenzi et al. [3]	1	59	Male	Lung cancer	N/A	8 months	None	II
2010	Dinasarapu et al. [19]	1	52	Female	Right breast cancer	N/A	2 cycles of chemotherapy	Postoperative fever, leukopenia, and recurrent neurological symptoms associated with the use of the port-a-cath, considered to be related to microthrombus detachment or air embolism.	IIIb
2011	Povoski et al. [9]	1	53	Female	Bilateral breast cancers	N/A	about 7 months	None	IIIb
2016	Zhou et al. [10]	1	37	Female	Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	N/A	8 months	None	N/A
2016	Sarsenov et al. [11]	1	35	Female	Right breast cancer	N/A	N/A	None	IIIb
2016	Konstantinou et al. [17]	1	63	Male	Metastatic colon cancer	N/A	Removed after implantation	N/A	IIIb
2017	Evers et al. [16]	1	50	N/A	Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus	N/A	8 cycles of chemotherapy	None	IIIb
2018	Van Walleghem et al. [12]	1	74	Male	Lung cancer	N/A	N/A	None	IIIb
2021	Jheengut et al. [15]	8	average 44.8 (range 31–59)	6 females; 2 males	6 cases of breast cancer, 2 cases of non-small cell lung cancer	N/A	6–20 cycles of chemotherapy (varying for each patient)	None	N/A
2022	El-Helou et al. [13]	1	40	Male	Mixed Hodgkin lymphoma	N/A	9 months	None	IIIa
2022	Zhou et al. [14]	2	40 and 54	Female	40y-Bilateral breast cancers; 54y- Right breast cancer	N/A	Completion of chemotherapy	None	40y-IIIa; 54y-N/A
2023	Bonitto et al. [8]	1	5	Female	Long-chain L-3 hydroxyacylCoA dehydrogenase deficiency	N/A	3 years	Catheter dysfunction	N/A
2023	Masaki et al. [18]	1	85	Female	Dysphagia due to the after-effects of cerebral infarction	N/A	Removed after implantation	N/A	IIIb
2024	Hama et al. [7]	1	33	Female	Right breast cancer	N/A	8 months	Catheter dysfunction and malposition	IIIb