Use of the Wallstent for symptomatic relief of malignant inferior vena cava obstructions

Radiation Medicine - Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology

Volumn 23, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 380-385

  Zamora, Carlos Armando ^a   Sugimoto, Koji ^a   Mori, Takeki ^a   Taniguchi, Takanori ^a   Tsurusaki, Masakatsu ^a   Izaki, Kenta ^a   Iwama, Yuki ^a   Yamaguchi, Masato ^a   Sugimura, Kazuro ^a  

^a KOBE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Inferior vena cava; Malignancy; Obstruction; Stent

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEATH; EDEMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN OBSTRUCTION; KIDNEY FUNCTION; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; NAUSEA; REVASCULARIZATION; STENT; VASCULAR PATENCY; VASCULAR TUMOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; STENTS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VASCULAR DISEASES; VASCULAR PATENCY; VENA CAVA, INFERIOR;

EID: 24644513481     PISSN: 02882043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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