Intractable massive ascites following radical gastrectomy, treatment with local intraperitoneal administration of OK-432 using a unified CT and fluoroscopy system

Australasian Radiology

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 465-467

  Inaba, Yoshitaka ^a   Arai, Yasuaki ^a   Matsueda, Kiyoshi ^a   Aramaki, Takeshi ^a   Kodera, Yasuhiro ^a  

^a AICHI CANCER CENTER HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Ascites; Gastrectomy; Interventional procedures; Lymphorrhea

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; CONTRAST MEDIUM; DIURETIC AGENT; IOPAMIDOL; PICIBANIL; VIRUS ANTIBODY;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASCITES FLUID; CASE REPORT; CATHETER; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG EFFECT; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTRECTOMY; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LYMPHADENECTOMY; LYMPHATIC SYSTEM DISEASE; LYMPHORRHEA; MALE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH CANCER; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASOUND;

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENTS; ASCITES; FLUOROSCOPY; GASTRECTOMY; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PICIBANIL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; STOMACH NEOPLASMS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0345830658     PISSN: 00048461     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1440-1673.2003.01223.x     Document Type: Article

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