Sterile radial artery granuloma after transradial cardiac catheterization

Cardiovascular Revascularization Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 187-189

  Zellner, Christian ^a   Yeghiazarians, Yerem ^a   Ports, Thomas A ^a   Ursell, Philip ^a   Boyle, Andrew J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications; Foreign body reaction; Granuloma; Radial artery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; GLYCERYL TRINITRATE; HEPARIN; VERAPAMIL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM EXAMINATION; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEMALE; GRANULOMA; GRANULOMATOUS INFLAMMATION; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMAN; HYDROPHILICITY; INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIAL ARTERY; SKIN REDNESS; SWELLING; THROMBOSIS; ULTRASOUND; VASCULAR ACCESS; VASCULAR TUMOR;

ANEURYSM, FALSE; ANEURYSM, INFECTED; CATHETERS; COATED MATERIALS, BIOCOMPATIBLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, FOREIGN-BODY; HEART CATHETERIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; RADIAL ARTERY; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR;

EID: 79957808247     PISSN: 15538389     EISSN: 18780938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.carrev.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

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