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…
Colorectal Liver Disease
C. T. Sofocleous • P. Sideras • Elena N. Petre Intra-arterial therapies directed to the liver take advantage of the dual hepatic blood supply and specifically the fact that liver…
Pelvic Arteriovenous Malformations
Patricia E. Burrows BACKGROUND An arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is characterized by the presence of direct arteriovenous connections leading to arteriovenous shunting. Several genetic mutations affecting the transforming growth factor-beta superfamily…
Renal Angiomyolipomas
Gregory Nadolski • S. William Stavropoulos Angiomyolipomas (AMLs) are a benign neoplasm of the kidney composed of varying mixtures of adipose, muscle, and vascular tissues. Although benign, the vasculature within…
Uterine Fibroids
James B. Spies Uterine fibroid embolization (UFE) is now well established as an effective treatment for uterine fibroids, with substantial evidence of its efficacy. Since the first published small case…
