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Selective embolization of a branch of the renal artery for controlling late haemorrhage after amputation of the lower pole of the kidney
Article published in Urologia Polska 1982/35/1-2.

authors

Jerzy Wróbel, Odon Pętlak
Klinika Urologiczna Instytutu Chirurgii AM w Gdańsku
Kierownik: prof. dr hab. K. Adamkiewicz
Zakład Radiologii Instytutu Radiologii i Radioterapii AM w Gdańsku
Kierownik: prof. dr hab. M. Bielecki

summary

The authors describe a patient in whom amputation of the lower pole of the left kidney was followed after 6 days by an intensive haemorrhage from a vessel of the kidney. Guided embolization of this vessel madę possible avoiding nep­hrectomy.

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