Catheter Therapy: Fluoroscopic Monitoring of Deliberate Embolic Occlusion

1 November 1977

journal article
research article
Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology

Vol. 125 (2) , 538-540
https://doi.org/10.1148/125.2.538

Abstract

In the deliberate embolic occlusion of human arteriovenous malformations (AVM) and vascular tumors complications can occur when emboli pass into arteries supplying normal structures. Maximum safety and precision is gained by direct fluoroscopic visualization of the occlusion process done by suspending the particles in a contrast agent and monitoring the ever-decreasing vessel runoff. The technique was useful in the treatment of intra- and extracranial AVM and tumors.