Spontaneous Occlusion of Splenic and Renal Pseudoaneurysm After Blunt Abdominal Trauma: A Case Report and Literature Review

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Inoue, Yoshiaki ^a   Ikegawa, Hitoshi ^a   Ukai, Isao ^a   Yoshiya, Kazuhisa ^a   Sumi, Yuka ^a   Ogura, Hiroshi ^a   Kuwagata, Yasuyuki ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Shimazu, Takeshi ^a   Sugimoto, Hisashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

blunt abdominal trauma; conservative therapy; multi detector computed tomography (MDCT); pseudoaneurysm; spontaneous occlusion

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL BLEEDING; ABDOMINAL BLUNT TRAUMA; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BED REST; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MULTIDETECTOR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL PSEUDOANEURYSM; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; SPLENIC PSEUDOANEURYSM;

ADOLESCENT; ANEURYSM, FALSE; BED REST; FOOTBALL; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMANS; KIDNEY; MALE; RETROPERITONEAL SPACE; SPLEEN; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WOUNDS, NONPENETRATING;

EID: 77949919102     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2007.07.023     Document Type: Article

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