Successful transcatheter arterial embolisation of a cystic artery pseudoaneurysm secondary to calculus cholecystitis: A case report

Journal of Radiology Case Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 18-22

  Desai, Amidevi U ^a   Saunders, Michael P ^a   Anderson, Hugh J ^a   Howlett, David C ^a  

^a EASTBOURNE DISTRICT GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cystic artery; Embolisation; Gallbladder; Haemobilia; Pseudoaneurysm

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; AGED; ANEURYSM; ANGIOGRAPHY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CASE REPORT; CELIAC ARTERY; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC DUCT; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FALLING; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FEVER; GALLBLADDER; GASTROINTESTINAL ENDOSCOPY; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; MELENA; NAUSEA; SEPSIS; ULTRASOUND; VOMITING;

EID: 76749168641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19430922     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3941/jrcr.v4i2.268     Document Type: Article

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