Small bowel volvulus after uterine artery embolization requiring bowel resection: A case report

Journal of Reproductive Medicine for the Obstetrician and Gynecologist

Volumn 51, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 739-741

  Gavrilescu, Tudor ^b   Sherer, David M ^a   Temkin, Sarah ^b   Zinn, Harry ^b   Abulafia, Ovadia ^b  

^a Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Small intestine; Therapeutic embolization; Uterus; Volvulus

Indexed keywords

POLYVINYL ALCOHOL;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; EMERGENCY SURGERY; END TO END ANASTOMOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTESTINE RESECTION; INTESTINE VOLVULUS; LAPAROTOMY; NAUSEA; PATHOLOGY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPSIS; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; TREATMENT FAILURE; TREATMENT INDICATION; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS MYOMA; UTERUS PROLAPSE; UTERUS RUPTURE; UTERUS SYNECHIA; VOMITING;

ADULT; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FALLOPIAN TUBES; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILEUS; INTESTINAL VOLVULUS; LEIOMYOMA;

EID: 33749134461     PISSN: 00247758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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