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Recurrent bleeding from intercostal arterial pseudoaneurysm after retroperitoneal laparoscopic radical nephrectomy
R Bluebond-Langner1, P A Pinto, F J Kim
1James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Urology
|December 12, 2002
Abstract:
We report a case of a 59-year-old man with recurrent bleeding after retroperitoneal laparoscopic nephrectomy. Computed tomography and Doppler ultrasonography confirmed an intercostal artery pseudoaneurysm as the source. Angiography 1 month later demonstrated resolution after conservative management.
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