Fatal air and bile embolism after percutaneous liver biopsy and ERCP

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 153-157

  Siddiqui, Junaid ^a   Jaffe, Philip E ^a   Aziz, Khalid ^a   Forouhar, Faripour ^a   Sheppard, Richard ^a   Covault, Jonathan ^a   Bonkovsky, Herbert L ^a,b  

^a Departments of Medicine   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; CLONAZEPAM; FLUOXETINE; LIVER ENZYME; NALTREXONE; VALPROATE SEMISODIUM; VALPROIC ACID;

ADULT; AIR EMBOLISM; ALCOHOLISM; ANAMNESIS; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AUTOPSY; BILE EMBOLISM; BIPOLAR DISORDER; BLOOD CHEMISTRY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EMBOLISM; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; JAUNDICE; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER BIOPSY; LIVER FUNCTION TEST; LUNG EMBOLISM; PERCUTANEOUS BIOPSY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; SPHINCTEROTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TOXIC HEPATITIS;

ADULT; BILE; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; EMBOLISM, AIR; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER; PULMONARY EMBOLISM;

EID: 12844289170     PISSN: 00165107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0016-5107(04)02448-4     Document Type: Article

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