Nutcracker syndrome: When should it be treated and how?

Perspectives in Vascular Surgery and Endovascular Therapy

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 117-124

  Menard, Matthew T ^a  

^a BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Hematuria; Nutcracker; Renal vein

Indexed keywords

ARTERY COMPRESSION; ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DECOMPRESSION SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DISEASE SEVERITY; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOVASCULAR SURGERY; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; KIDNEY VEIN; LEG VARICOSIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; NUTCRACKER SYNDROME; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STENT; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADULT; ANGIOPLASTY, BALLOON; CONSTRICTION, PATHOLOGIC; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; FEMALE; FLANK PAIN; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; PERIPHERAL VASCULAR DISEASES; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RENAL VEINS; STENTS; SYNDROME; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULAR SURGICAL PROCEDURES;

EID: 70349479399     PISSN: 15310035     EISSN: 15310027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1531003509338402     Document Type: Article

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