Therapeutic Embolization

A method of hemostasis utilizing various agents such as Gelfoam, silastic, metal, glass, or plastic pellets, autologous clot, fat, and muscle as emboli. It has been used in the treatment of spinal cord and INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS, renal arteriovenous fistulas, gastrointestinal bleeding, epistaxis, hypersplenism, certain highly vascular tumors, traumatic rupture of blood vessels, and control of operative hemorrhage.

Also Known As:

Embolization, Therapeutic; Embolizations, Therapeutic; Embolotherapies; Therapeutic Embolizations; Embolotherapy

Therapeutics: 1158551
- Hemostatic Techniques: 124
  - Therapeutic Embolization: 784
- Therapeutic Occlusion: 38
  - Therapeutic Embolization: 784

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