Clinical Imaging
Volume 33, Issue 6 , Pages 474-477 , November 2009

Life-threatening intra-abdominal hemorrhage from left superior colonic artery pseudoaneurysm after percutaneous renal biopsy: successful treatment with superselective arterial embolization

Received 20 August 2008 ,Revised 19 December 2008 ,Accepted 11 January 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.01.012

Clinical Imaging
Volume 33, Issue 6 , Pages 474-477 , November 2009

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