Delayed life-threatening haematuria from a renal pseudoaneurysm caused by blunt renal trauma treated with selective embolization

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 352-354

  Giannopoulos, Aris ^a,b   Manousakas, Theodoros ^a   Alexopoulou, Efthymia ^a   Brountzos, Elias ^a   Papadoukakis, Stefanos ^a   Kelekis, Dimitrios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b LAIKO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Angiography; Blunt trauma; Embolization; Haematuria; Pseudo aneurysm; Renal artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; KIDNEY ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; KIDNEY INJURY; MALE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ARTERY ANEURYSM; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, FALSE; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; RENAL ARTERY; TIME FACTORS; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 2942527714     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000077693     Document Type: Article

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