Pelvic Trauma
Pierre E. Bize • Yann Lachenal • Alban Denys Pelvic hemorrhage is usually related to unstable pelvic fractures, which are observed in up to 25% of all polytrauma patients.1 Because…
INTERVENTIONAL RADIOLOGY
Intractable Hematuria
Romaric Loffroy Intractable hematuria from the bladder is a potentially life-threatening event that raises major therapeutic challenges. Causes of severe hematuria include mainly unresectable bladder carcinoma, radiation cystitis, and cyclophosphamide-induced…
Chest Tumors
Shinichi Hori BACKGROUND Lung and Mediastinal Malignancy Treatment Treatment of patients with advanced lung cancer or metastatic lung tumor, usually with serious symptoms such as respiratory distress, pain, or vascular…
Combined Therapies
Riccardo Lencioni • Marcelo Guimaraes Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the second leading cause of cancer-related death worldwide.1 Unlike most solid cancers, future incidence and mortality rates for HCC were projected…
Vascular Tumors
Robert F. James • Lacey B. Martin • John R. Gaughen, Jr • William J. Mack Highly vascular tumors of the head and neck often pose significant surgical challenges. Bleeding…
Iatrogenic Lesions
Yann Lachenal • Alban Denys • Pierre E. Bize BACKGROUND With the increasing number of minimally invasive diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, iatrogenic complications have become more frequent.1–6 These complications can…
Thoracoabdominal Trauma
Lawrence J. Keating • Ashley Adamovich ABDOMINAL TRAUMA BACKGROUND During the past three decades, management of traumatic abdominal organ injury has evolved from a predominantly surgical approach to a strategy…
Pediatric Embolization
Sergio Sierre BACKGROUND Endovascular techniques used in children for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes are relatively similar compared to those used for adults. Most of these procedures performed in the pediatric…
Oil-Based Chemoembolization
Marcus Presley • Daniel B. Brown Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) remains a uniformly lethal disease process in the absence of curative procedures such as transplantation or resection. Okuda et al.1 described…
