Cooperation between a surgeon and an Interventional radiologist in cases of internal bleeding

Abstract

In the case-review section of this report, a total number of five patients with serious cases of internal bleeding, the source of which was diagnosed and treated under cooperation between the above mentioned specialists is presented. The patients concerned suffered from the following: a trauma to the liver parenchyma, posttraumatic arterioportal shunts, an intraheparic aneurysm, a relaps of the uterine carcinoma with hemorrhaging into the colon and the vagina, bleeding into retroperitoneum.

In all the cases the lesion was successfully treated and the hemorrhage was managed.

Keywords

• Cooperation
• between
• surgeon
• Interventional
• radiologist
• cases
• internal
• bleeding