Haemothorax due to hepatocellular carcinoma rupture successfully controlled by transcatheter arterial embolization

Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology (Australia)

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 156-158

  Masumoto, Akihide ^a,b   Motomura, Kenta ^a   Uchimura, Koutaro ^a   Morotomi, Ikuo ^a   Morita, Kazunori ^a  

^a FUKUOKA HIGASHI MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

Author keywords

Haemothorax; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Inferior phrenic artery; Transcatheter arterial embolization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; LUNG METASTASIS; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOGRAPHY; THORAX DISEASE; ANGIOGRAPHY; DIAPHRAGM; HEMATOTHORAX; LIVER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; RUPTURE; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; VASCULARIZATION;

ANGIOGRAPHY; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; DIAPHRAGM; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEMOTHORAX; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS;

EID: 0031064209     PISSN: 08159319     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1746.1997.tb00399.x     Document Type: Article

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