Transcatheter arterial embolization in a hemodynamically unstable patient with grade IV blunt liver injury: Is nonsurgical management an option?

Emergency Radiology

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 111-115

  Nijhof, H W ^a   Willemssen, F E J A ^a   Jukema, G N ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Arterial; Blunt; Embolization; Liver; Transcatheter; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTERY CATHETERIZATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; DISEASE SEVERITY; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMODYNAMICS; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; LIVER INJURY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTS, TRAFFIC; ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; LIVER; MALE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 33644633560     PISSN: 10703004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10140-005-0460-x     Document Type: Article

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