Middle rectal artery: Myth or reality? Retrospective study with CT angiography and digital subtraction angiography

Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 517-522

  Bilhim, Tiago ^a,b   Pereira, José A ^b   Tinto, Hugo Rio ^a,b   Fernandes, Lúcia ^a,b   Duarte, Marisa ^b   O'Neill, João E ^a   Pisco, João M ^a,b  

^a NOVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Portugal)

^b Saint Louis Hospital   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Anatomy; Computed tomographic angiography; Digital subtraction angiography; Middle rectal artery; Rectal arteries

Indexed keywords

IOVERSOL;

ADULT; AGED; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ARTERY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL EMBOLISM; CATHETER; COMMON GLUTEAL PUDENDAL TRUNK; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC ANGIOGRAPHY; DIGITAL SUBTRACTION ANGIOGRAPHY; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; INFERIOR GLUTEAL ARTERY; INFERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; INTERNAL PUDENDAL ARTERY; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE RECTAL ARTERY; OBTURATOR ARTERY; PELVIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE HYPERTROPHY; RECTUM; RECTUM ANASTOMOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SUPERIOR MESENTERIC ARTERY; SURGICAL ANATOMY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGIOGRAPHY, DIGITAL SUBTRACTION; ARTERIES; COHORT STUDIES; EMBOLIZATION, THERAPEUTIC; HUMANS; LOWER URINARY TRACT SYMPTOMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 84880921453     PISSN: 09301038     EISSN: 12798517     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00276-012-1068-y     Document Type: Article

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