Acute postoperative pulmonary thromboembolism as a result of intravascular migration of a pigtail ureteral stent

Anesthesia and Analgesia

Volumn 95, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1185-1188

  Michalopoulos, Argyris S ^a   Tzoufi, Maria J ^a   Theodorakis, George ^a   Mentzelopoulos, Spyros D ^a  

^a NONE   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENOXAPARIN; FENTANYL;

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEVICE REMOVAL; ELECTROCARDIOGRAM; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY; LUNG ANGIOGRAPHY; LUNG EMBOLISM; LUNG SCINTISCANNING; OXYGEN THERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE ANALGESIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYELOLITHOTOMY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; URETER STENT;

EID: 0036829387     PISSN: 00032999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000539-200211000-00011     Document Type: Article

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