Greenfield filter caval perforation causing an aortic mural thrombus and femoral artery occlusion

Catheterization and Cardiovascular Diagnosis

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 53-55

  Chintalapudi, Udaya B ^a   Gutierrez, Oscar H ^a   Azodo, Michael V U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

aortic thrombus; Greenfield filter; IVC perforation

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FIBRINOLYTIC THERAPY; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; PERIPHERAL OCCLUSIVE ARTERY DISEASE; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOEMBOLISM; VENA CAVA FILTER;

ADULT; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTERIAL OCCLUSIVE DISEASES; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLISM; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EQUIPMENT FAILURE; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; HUMANS; SAPHENOUS VEIN; THROMBECTOMY; THROMBOLYTIC THERAPY; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; THROMBOSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY PLASMINOGEN ACTIVATOR; VENA CAVA FILTERS; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 0030889812     PISSN: 00986569     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0304(199705)41:1<53::AID-CCD13>3.0.CO;2-R     Document Type: Article

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