Percutaneous Nitinol Stent Implantation in the Treatment of Nutcracker Syndrome in Young Adults

Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1042-1046

  Basile, Antonio ^a   Tsetis, Dimitrios ^b   Calcara, Giacomo ^a   Figuera, Michele ^a   Patti, Maria Teresa ^a   Ettorre, Giovanni Carlo ^a   Granata, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CATANIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; HEPARIN; NITINOL;

ABDOMINAL AORTA; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTOSCOPY; DOPPLER FLOWMETRY; DYSPAREUNIA; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; KIDNEY VEIN; MALE; NUTCRACKER SYNDROME; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEINURIA; STENOSIS; STENT; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; THROMBOSIS; URINALYSIS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALLOYS; AORTA, ABDOMINAL; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DRUG-ELUTING STENTS; DYSPAREUNIA; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MALE; MESENTERIC ARTERY, SUPERIOR; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PROTEINURIA; RENAL VEINS;

EID: 34547211235     PISSN: 10510443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvir.2007.05.017     Document Type: Article

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