Complications after uterine artery embolization for leiomyomas

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 873-880

  Spies, James B ^a   Spector, Amy ^a   Roth, Antoinette R ^a   Baker, Chandra M ^a   Mauro, Lauren ^a   Murphy‐Skrynarz, Kerry ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; CORTICOSTEROID DERIVATIVE; DIPHENHYDRAMINE; FIBRINOLYTIC AGENT; NARCOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ALLERGIC REACTION; ARTERY THROMBOSIS; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CALCULATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURETTAGE; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; ENDOMETRITIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; LEIOMYOSARCOMA; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MYOMECTOMY; NERVE INJURY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; PHLEBITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RASH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; THRUSH; TREATMENT OUTCOME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; URINE RETENTION; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ADULT; ARTERIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEIOMYOMA; MIDDLE AGED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS;

EID: 0036856069     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00006250-200211000-00007     Document Type: Article

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