Mesh term Embolization, Therapeutic
Browse to parent terms:Hemostatic Techniques
Therapeutic Occlusion
Description
A method of hemostasis utilizing various agents such as Gelfoam, silastic, metal, glass, or plastic pellets, autologous clot, fat, and muscle as emboli. It has been used in the treatment of spinal cord and INTRACRANIAL ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATIONS, renal arteriovenous fistulas, gastrointestinal bleeding, epistaxis, hypersplenism, certain highly vascular tumors, traumatic rupture of blood vessels, and control of operative hemorrhage.Browse to child terms:
Balloon Occlusion
Chemoembolization, Therapeutic
Uterine Artery Embolization
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