Table 1.

Characteristics and type of complications

Author, year	Total cases	Total Complications	Infections	Thrombosis	Malfunction	Migration	Extravasation	Operative complication	Complication requiring removal	Malposition
Ignatov, 2009
Total	561	104	42	30	6	11	10	2	46	3
Port	292	36	15	10	2	3	4	1	20	1
Picc	269	68	27	20	4	8	6	1	26	2
Estes, 2003
Total	116	45	24	8	8	0	0	5	29	0
Port	51	10	5	3	0	0	0	2	2	0
Picc	65	35	19	5	8	0	0	3	27	0
Martella, 2015
Total	102	10	4	2	0	4	0	0	0	0
Port	57	5	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
Picc	45	5	2	1	0	2	0	0	0	0
Minassian, 2000
Total	305	100	64	28	0	8	0	0	0	0
Port	230	80	53	20	0	7	0	0	0	0
Picc	75	20	11	8	0	1	0	0	0	0
Cohn, 2001
Total	236	53	13	19	13	6	2	0	0	0
Port	164	15	4	5	3	2	1	0	0	0
Picc	72	38	9	14	10	4	1	0	0	0
Total	1320	312; 23.6%	147; 11.1%	87; 6.6%	27; 2.0%	29; 2.2%	12; 0.9%	7; 0.5%	75; 5.7%	3; 0.2%
PORT	794	146; 18.4%	79; 9.9%	39; 4.9%	5; 0.6%	14; 1.8%	5; 0.6%	3; 0.4%	22; 2.8%	1; 0.1%
PICC	526	166; 31.6%	68; 12.9%	48; 9.1%	22; 4.2%	15; 2.9%	7; 1.3%	4; 0.8%	53; 10.1%	2; 0.4%