Successful renal transcatheter arterial embolization in three patients with symptomatic hydronephrosis due to ureteral obstruction

Internal Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 769-774

  Ubara, Yoshifumi ^a   Tagami, Tetsuo ^a   Higa, Yasushi ^a   Suwabe, Tatsuya ^a   Nomura, Kazufumi ^a   Hoshino, Jyunichi ^a   Sawa, Naoki ^a   Katori, Hideyuki ^a   Takemoto, Fumi ^a   Hara, Shigeko ^a   Takaichi, Kenmei ^a  

^a TORANOMON HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Obstructive uropathy; Symptomatic unilateral hydronephrosis; Transcatheter arterial embolization

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FEVER; FLANK PAIN; HUMAN; HYDRONEPHROSIS; IDIOPATHIC DISEASE; MALE; OBSTRUCTIVE UROPATHY; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENAL ARTERY; SAFETY; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TREATMENT INDICATION; TUBERCULOUS SPONDYLITIS; URETER OBSTRUCTION; UROLITHIASIS;

ADULT; AGED; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PYELONEPHRITIS; RENAL ARTERY; URETERAL OBSTRUCTION;

EID: 33746373974     PISSN: 09182918     EISSN: 13497235     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2169/internalmedicine.45.1659     Document Type: Article

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