Spontaneous bleeding in pancreatitis treated by transcatheter arterial coil embolization: a retrospective study.

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: A rare, but life-threatening complication in pancreatitis is a spontaneous bleeding from intestinal vessels with or without previous formation of (pseudo-) aneurysms. And yet, the optimal diagnostic and therapeutic strategies remain unclear. METHODS: We performed a retrospecti...

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Main Authors: Veit Phillip, Sebastian Rasch, Jochen Gaa, Roland M Schmid, Hana Algül
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3748030?pdf=render