Embolotherapy with Detachable Silicone Balloons

Authors:
  • RWRobert I. White
    Robert I. White
  • SKStephen L. Kaufman
    Stephen L. Kaufman
  • KBKlemens H. Barth
    Klemens H. Barth
  • VDVincent DeCaprio
    Vincent DeCaprio
  • JSJohn D. Strandbert
    John D. Strandbert
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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. Three additional patients, one each with pelvic arteriovenous malformation. pulmonary arteriovenous malformation, and hemangioendothelioma of the liver, were partially treated by balloon occulsion. Therapeutic embolization with detachable silicone balloons provides a method of long-term, extremely selective arterial occlusion with reduced risks from inadvertent embolization of neighboring circulations.