Use of the Amplatzer Vascular Plug for embolization of a large retroperitoneal shunt during transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt creation for gastric variceal bleeding

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 135-140

  Kessler, Jonathan ^a   Trerotola, Scott O ^a  

^a HOSPITAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AMPLATZER VASCULAR PLUG; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION; PORTOSYSTEMIC ANASTOMOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STOMACH HEMORRHAGE; BLOOD VESSEL FISTULA; ESOPHAGUS VARICES; INSTRUMENTATION; PATHOLOGY; PORTAL VEIN; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROPERITONEUM; STOMACH MUCOSA; VASCULARIZATION;

AGED; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; ESOPHAGEAL AND GASTRIC VARICES; FEMALE; GASTRIC MUCOSA; HUMANS; PORTAL VEIN; PORTASYSTEMIC SHUNT, TRANSJUGULAR INTRAHEPATIC; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; VASCULAR FISTULA;

EID: 33745320852     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.rvi.0000186958.59457.10     Document Type: Article

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