J. Golzarian · S. Sun · M. J. Sharafuddin (Eds.)

2006

Volume 1
General Principles, Chest, Abdomen,and Great Vessels

Therapeutic embolization has now become a major part of modern interventional practice, and its applications have become an integral component of the modern multimodality management paradigms in trauma, gastrointestinal hemorrhage and oncology, and the endovascular therapy of vascular malformations and aneurysms. The past decade has also marked the emergence of several new indications for therapeutic embolization, such as uterine fibroid embolization, and the widespread acceptance of embolization therapy as an effective non-operative management modality for major hepatic, splenic and renal injuries that once posed tremendous challenge to the trauma surgeon.