Treatment of Symptomatic High-Flow Female Varicoceles with Stop-flow Foam Sclerotherapy

CardioVascular and Interventional Radiology

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1259-1267

  Gandini, Roberto ^a   Konda, Daniel ^a   Abrignani, Sergio ^a   Chiocchi, Marcello ^a   Da Ros, Valerio ^a   Morosetti, Daniele ^a   Simonetti, Giovanni ^a  

^a TOR VERGATA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Embolization; Sclerotherapy; Venous intervention

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; TETRADECYL SULFATE SODIUM; SCLEROSING AGENT;

ADULT; ANGIOGRAPHIC CATHETER; ARTICLE; BALLOON OCCLUSION; CATHETER SHEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLIC; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GUIDE WIRE; HUMAN; PAIN SEVERITY; PELVIC VARICOCELE; PELVIS PAIN SYNDROME; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY BALLOON; PHLEBOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCLEROTHERAPY; STOP FLOW FOAM SCLEROTHERAPY; VARICOCELE; COMPLICATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY; PELVIC PAIN; PELVIS; PROCEDURES; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VARICOSE VEINS; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OVARY; PELVIC PAIN; PELVIS; PHLEBOGRAPHY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCLEROSING SOLUTIONS; SCLEROTHERAPY; SODIUM TETRADECYL SULFATE; SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER, COLOR; VARICOSE VEINS;

EID: 84920586445     PISSN: 01741551     EISSN: 1432086X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00270-013-0760-6     Document Type: Article

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