Urgent arterial embolization of ruptured renal angiomyolipoma

The most undesired complication of renal angiomyolipoma (AML) is bleeding. Because of tumor rupture, the bleeding can spread to the retroperitoneal field and can be severe enough to be life threatening. We report a case of retroperitoneal hemorrhage caused by a ruptured AML that was successfully tre...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Kervancioglu, Selim, Yilmaz, Feyza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: De Gruyter Open 2015
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5152981/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28352700
http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/med-2015-0035
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Sumario:The most undesired complication of renal angiomyolipoma (AML) is bleeding. Because of tumor rupture, the bleeding can spread to the retroperitoneal field and can be severe enough to be life threatening. We report a case of retroperitoneal hemorrhage caused by a ruptured AML that was successfully treated with transarterial embolization with N-butyl cyanoacrylate.

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