Therapeutic arterial embolisation in children.
Arterial embolisation was performed in five paediatric patients. Indications were hypersplenism in two, gastrointestinal bleeding in two and treatment of an aneurysmal bone cyst in one. Embolisation provided definitive treatment in each case with no complications.
D001845:Bone Cysts / Q000628:therapy; D002648:Child; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic; D005260:Female; D006471:Gastrointestinal Hemorrhage / Q000628:therapy; D005781:Gelatin Sponge, Absorbable; D006499:Hepatic Artery; D006801:Humans; D006971:Hypersplenism / Q000628:therapy; D007083:Iliac Artery; D008297:Male; D008638:Mesenteric Arteries; D013157:Splenic Artery