Necrotic leiomyoma and gram-negative sepsis eight weeks after uterine artery embolization

Obstetrics and Gynecology

Volumn 104, Issue 5 PART 2, 2004, Pages 1161-1164

  Aungst, Matthew ^a   Wilson, Mark ^a   Vournas, Karen ^a   McCarthy, Sarah ^a  

^a KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYSTERECTOMY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LEIOMYOMA; METHODOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECROSIS; OVARIECTOMY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERUS CANCER;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LEIOMYOMA; NECROSIS; OVARIECTOMY; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SHOCK, SEPTIC; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTERINE NEOPLASMS;

EID: 16544386212     PISSN: 00297844     EISSN: 1873233X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.AOG.0000128107.58898.e1     Document Type: Article

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