Life-threatening rupture of a renal angiomyolipoma in a patient taking over-the-counter horse chestnut seed extract

Journal of Emergency Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Snow, Aisling ^a   Halpenny, Darragh ^a   McNeill, Graeme ^a   Torreggiani, William C ^a  

^a ADELAIDE AND MEATH HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

Author keywords

angiomyolipoma; coagulation; embolization; hemorrhage; horse chestnut seed extract; kidney; peripheral vascular disease

Indexed keywords

AESCULUS HIPPOCASTANUM EXTRACT;

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FEMALE; FLUID RESUSCITATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY ANGIOGRAPHY; KIDNEY ARTERY EMBOLIZATION; KIDNEY HEMORRHAGE; MEDICAL HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RENAL ANGIOMYOLIPOMA RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TUMOR VOLUME; VARICOSIS;

AESCULUS; ANGIOMYOLIPOMA; FEMALE; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; MIDDLE AGED; PHYTOTHERAPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SEEDS; VENOUS INSUFFICIENCY;

EID: 84870461564     PISSN: 07364679     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jemermed.2010.11.044     Document Type: Article

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