Outpatient uterine artery embolization for symptomatic uterine fibroids: Experience in 49 patients

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 305-311

  Siskin, Gary P ^a   Stainken, Brian F ^a   Dowling, Kyran ^a   Meo, Patricia ^a   Ahn, Jiyong ^a   Dolen, Eric G ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fibroid; Uterine arteries, therapeutic blockade; Uterus, neoplasms

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE PLUS PARACETAMOL; HYDROXYZINE; HYDROXYZINE EMBONATE; IBUPROFEN; KETOROLAC; LABETALOL; LEVOFLOXACIN; PETHIDINE; POLYVINYL ALCOHOL; PROCHLORPERAZINE;

ABDOMINAL CRAMP; ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ANESTHETIC RECOVERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; FATIGUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MENORRHAGIA; NAUSEA; OUTPATIENT CARE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS INCONTINENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINA DISCHARGE; VOMITING;

EID: 0034026618     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1051-0443(07)61422-5     Document Type: Article

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