Uterine artery pseudoaneurysm rupture: A life-threatening presentation of vaginal bleeding

Annals of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 460-463

  Bhatt, Ajay ^a   Odujebe, Oladapo ^a   Bhatt, Sanjay ^b   Houry, Debra ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH FROZEN PLASMA;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ANEURYSM RUPTURE; ARTERIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BLOOD PRESSURE; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIZZINESS; ECHOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY WARD; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HEMOSTASIS; HUMAN; LETHARGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TACHYCARDIA; UTERINE ARTERY; VAGINA BLEEDING; VAGINAL VAULT PROLAPSE; EMERGENCY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERUS BLEEDING;

ADULT; ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANEURYSM, RUPTURED; EMERGENCIES; EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES; FEMALE; HUMANS; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; UTERINE ARTERY; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE;

EID: 77951929861     PISSN: 01960644     EISSN: 10976760     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2010.01.026     Document Type: Article

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