Embolization of a giant hepatic hemangioma prior to urgent liver resection. Case report and review of the literature

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 800-802

  Vassiou, K ^a   Rountas, H ^b   Liakou, P ^b   Arvanitis, D ^a   Fezoulidis, I ^b   Tepetes, K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THESSALY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF LARISSA   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ANAMNESIS; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CASE REPORT; CAVERNOUS HEMANGIOMA; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEPATIC ARTERY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER HEMANGIOMA; LIVER PARENCHYMA; LIVER RESECTION; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; THROMBOCYTOPENIA;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; EMERGENCIES; FEMALE; HEMANGIOMA, CAVERNOUS; HEPATECTOMY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; NEOADJUVANT THERAPY; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 36048956083     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-007-9057-y     Document Type: Article

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