Adrenal ablation by retrograde venous ethanol injection: an ineffective and dangerous procedure.
- 1 March 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 150 (3) , 667-672
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.150.3.6695065
Abstract
Venous injection of ethanol [which causes endothelial damage and thrombosis] was used to ablate the left adrenal gland in 9 [rhesus and cynomolgus] monkeys. Severe hypertension and tachycardia occurred in all animals not pretreated with .alpha.- or .beta.-adrenergic blockers. On postmortem examination the left adrenal glands were reduced in size but still retained some normal tissue. This procedure [considered as a possible therapeutic approach to adrenal tumors], while technically simple, is neither effective nor safe.This publication has 4 references indexed in Scilit:
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