title: Palliative embolization in gynaecological patients.
abstract: Palliative embolization in patients with gynaecological malignancies is indicated, if other methods of treatment like irradiation, surgery and chemotherapy are impossible or contra-indicated. The experience in 9 patients is reported, with embolization of one renal artery because of metastasis in the kidney and in eight patients the hypogastric arteries uni- or bilaterally by means of Gelfoam and/or Gianturco coils because of inoperable bleeding malignancies.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007083:Iliac Artery; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography; D012077:Renal Artery