RT Journal
A1 Danis RK, Wolverson MK, Graviss ER, O'Connor DM, Joyce PF, Cradock TV
T1 PReoperative embolization of wilms' tumors
JF American Journal of Diseases of Children
JO American Journal of Diseases of Children
YR 1979
FD May 1
VO 133
IS 5
SP 503
OP 506
DO 10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130050047010
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1979.02130050047010
AB • In two patients with Wilms' tumors, the ipsilateral kidney was nonfunctional. To facilitate initial surgical removal of the tumors, a preoperative transcatheter embolization was performed following diagnostic arteriography. Preoperative embolization of a renal tumor reduces the vascularity of the lesion prior to surgery, and a patient in whom primary surgical removal of the tumor would carry unacceptable risk may be converted into one in whom primary surgical removal is safe.(Am J Dis Child 133:503-506, 1979)