Combined use of transesophageal echocardiography and basket catheter can prevent tumor embolism in a patient with renal cell carcinoma

Anesthesiology. 1998 Oct;89(4):1015-7. doi: 10.1097/00000542-199810000-00025.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / complications
  • Carcinoma, Renal Cell / surgery*
  • Catheterization / methods*
  • Echocardiography, Transesophageal / methods*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / complications
  • Kidney Neoplasms / surgery*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Nephrectomy / methods
  • Pulmonary Embolism / etiology
  • Pulmonary Embolism / prevention & control*
  • Thrombectomy / methods
  • Vena Cava, Inferior