Accidental small bowel perforation after antegrade femoral artery access for percutaneous thromboembolectomy and angioplasty

Journal of Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 685-689

  Seyfarth, Tobias ^a   Baumgartner, Iris ^b   Triller, Jürgen ^a   Dinkel, Hans Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b Kantonsspital Frauenfeld   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Balloon angioplasty; Complication; Incarcerated femoral hernia; Small bowel perforation; Transfemoral catheterization

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; AGED; ARTERY EMBOLISM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; EMBOLECTOMY; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; FEMORAL HERNIA; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PERITONEAL FLUID; PERITONITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMALL INTESTINE PERFORATION;

AGED; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; FEMALE; FEMORAL ARTERY; HERNIA, FEMORAL; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; INTESTINE, SMALL; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SUCTION; THROMBOEMBOLISM; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 18744399829     PISSN: 15266028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1583/1545-1550(2002)009<0685:ASBPAA>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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