Massive vault necrosis with bladder fistula after uterine artery embolisation

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 215-216

  El Shalakany, Amr H ^a,b   Nasr El Din, Mohammad H ^a   Wafa, Gamal A ^a   Azzam, Mohammad E ^a   El Dorry, Ahmad ^a  

^a AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^b NONE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFTRIAXONE; DICLOFENAC; PARACETAMOL;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ABSCESS; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER; BLADDER FISTULA; BLOOD FLOW; CALCINOSIS; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CELL INFILTRATION; CONTRACEPTION; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FEVER; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; MENSTRUATION; NECROSIS; OVARY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SYMPTOM; ULTRASOUND; URINE INCONTINENCE; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE CERVIX; UTERUS; VAGINA; VAGINA DISCHARGE;

ADULT; ARTERIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; ISCHEMIA; LEIOMYOMA; NECROSIS; URINARY BLADDER FISTULA; UTERINE NEOPLASMS; UTERUS; VAGINAL FISTULA;

EID: 0037331751     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1471-0528.2003.01151.x     Document Type: Article

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