[Embolization by direct puncture of hypervascularized ORL tumors].
Direct intratumoral embolization was used to treat five patients with vascularized tumors of the head and neck: 2 nasopharyngeal angiofibroma, 2 glomus jugulare tumors and 1 hemangiopericytoma. Embolization was performed by direct puncture and intratumoral injection of a plastic mixture under angiographic control. In 4 patients, embolization was performed preoperatively. Devascularization was induced in at least 90% of the volume of these tumors, thus facilitating subsequent surgical removal of the tumor. In 1 patient, embolization was performed with palliative intent. Good regression of symptoms was obtained.
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Unité de Neuroradiologie interventionnelle, Fondation A. de Rothschild, Paris.
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Chabolle
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Moret
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D018322:Angiofibroma / Q000628:therapy*; D004621:Embolization, Therapeutic / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D005925:Glomus Jugulare Tumor / Q000628:therapy*; D006393:Hemangiopericytoma / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009303:Nasopharyngeal Neoplasms / Q000628:therapy; D009389:Neovascularization, Pathologic; D010039:Otorhinolaryngologic Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000628:therapy*; D015642:Radiology, Interventional