Embolization of the ovarian veins as a treatment for patients with chronic pelvic pain caused by pelvic venous incompetence (pelvic congestion syndrome)

Current Opinion in Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 395-399

  Venbrux, Anthony C ^a   Lambert, Drew L ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CATHETERIZATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; OVARIAN VEIN; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

CHRONIC DISEASE; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILIAC VEIN; OVARIAN DISEASES; OVARY; PELVIC PAIN; VARICOSE VEINS; VEINS;

EID: 0032787068     PISSN: 1040872X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001703-199908000-00006     Document Type: Review

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