Management of Nonocclusive Hepatic Artery Complications After Liver Transplantation

Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 10, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 221-232

  Saad, Wael E A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

arteritis; AV fistula; embolization; pseudoaneurysm; slow flow; steal syndrome

Indexed keywords

ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERITIS; ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; ARTERY INJURY; ARTERY RUPTURE; ARTERY SURGERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; FALSE ANEURYSM; GRAFT RECIPIENT; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER ARTERIOGRAPHY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; PATHOGENESIS; STENT; SURGICAL ANATOMY; THROMBOSIS; TREATMENT INDICATION;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; ARTERIOVENOUS FISTULA; ARTERITIS; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; STENTS; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, MINIMALLY INVASIVE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; VASCULAR DISEASES;

EID: 37049027100     PISSN: 10892516     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.tvir.2007.09.016     Document Type: Article

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