Elective Non-Removal of the Placenta and Prophylactic Uterine Artery Embolization Postpartum as a Diagnostic Imaging Approach for the Management of Placenta Percreta: A Case Report

Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology Canada

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 743-746

  Alkazaleh, Fawaz ^a   Geary, Michael ^a   Kingdom, John ^a   Kachura, John R ^b   Windrim, Rory ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Balloon occlusion; Placenta; Placenta accreta; Ultrasonography; Uterine inertia

Indexed keywords

GELFOAM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER INJURY; CASE REPORT; CESAREAN SECTION; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DILATATION AND CURETTAGE; EPIDURAL CATHETER; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; FLUOROSCOPY; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; PATIENT COUNSELING; PEROPERATIVE ECHOGRAPHY; PLACENTA ACCRETA; PLACENTA PREVIA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PUERPERIUM; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; UTERINE ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; VAGINAL DELIVERY; ARTERY; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; BALLOON DILATATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; METHODOLOGY; PLACENTA DISORDER; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; UTERUS; UTERUS BLEEDING; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; ARTERIES; BALLOON DILATATION; CESAREAN SECTION; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYSTERECTOMY; LAPAROTOMY; PLACENTA DISEASES; POSTPARTUM HEMORRHAGE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; UTERINE HEMORRHAGE; UTERUS;

EID: 7944238130     PISSN: 17012163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1701-2163(16)30646-6     Document Type: Article

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