Embolotherapy with Detachable Silicone Balloons

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Abstract
Catheter techniques and early clinical results of therapeutic embolization with detachable silicone rubber balloons are described in 13 patients. Effective control of post-traumatic or spontaneously occurring hemorrhage or preoperative devascularization of neoplasms was achieved in 10 patients. Additional patients (3), 1 each with pelvic arteriovenous malformation, pulmonary arteriovenous malformation and liver hemangioendothelioma, were partially treated by balloon occlusion. Therapeutic embolization with detachable silicone balloons provided a method of long-term, extremely selective arterial occlusion with reduced risks from inadvertent embolization of neighboring circulations.