Complications of embolization

Seminars in Interventional Radiology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 126-142

  Bilbao, José I ^a   Martínez Cuesta, Antonio ^a   Urtasun, Femín ^b   Cosín, Octavio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY CLINIC OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

^b Instituto de Investigación Sanitaria de Navarra   (Spain)

Author keywords

Complications; Embolization

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BLEOMYCIN; CISPLATIN; ETHANOLAMINE; IODINATED POPPYSEED OIL; MORRHUATE SODIUM; OCTREOTIDE; PARACETAMOL; PICIBANIL; POLIDOCANOL; SOMATOSTATIN; STEROID; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM; THROMBIN;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON OCCLUSION; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; BLISTER; BRONCHIAL ARTERY; CONGENITAL BLOOD VESSEL MALFORMATION; CYTOLYSIS; DRUG HYPERSENSITIVITY; EMBOLISM; EPISTAXIS; FEVER; HEMATOTHORAX; HEMOBILIA; HEMOGLOBINURIA; HEMOPERITONEUM; HEMOPTYSIS; HUMAN; HYPERSPLENISM; INFECTION; INTERNAL ILIAC ARTERY; ISCHEMIA; KIDNEY ABSCESS; KIDNEY ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; LIVER CARCINOMA; LIVER FAILURE; LIVER INJURY; LIVER METASTASIS; LIVER TOXICITY; LUNG ARTERIOVENOUS SHUNT; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; NERVE INJURY; PAIN; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PORTAL VEIN; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; PYELONEPHRITIS; RETROPERITONEAL ABSCESS; REVIEW; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SKIN NECROSIS; SPINAL CORD ISCHEMIA; SWELLING; THORAX PAIN; THROMBOPHLEBITIS; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS PROLAPSE; VAGINA BLEEDING; VASCULAR FIBROSIS;

EID: 33744475343     PISSN: 07399529     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-2006-941443     Document Type: Review

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