Transarterial embolization in head and neck lesions

Abstract

The transarterial embolization procedures have been perfo rmed in a total 01 38 patients with head and neck lesions, includ in g 5 carotid-cavernous list비 as ， 1 internal carotid aneurysm, 10 meningiomas, 16 nasopharyngeal angiolibromas, 1 post-traumatic epistaxis and 5 other vascular tu mo rs, over the 18 months period. Six cases 01 C-C listulas and ICA aneurysm were treated with the detachable bal loon catheter techniqueThe men in gio mas, angiolibromas and all other lesions were embolized with superselection 01 the branches 01 the external carotid arte 마 such as the internal maxillary, the middle men ingeal, the ascending pharyngeal, the lacial or other branches, using Berenstein superselective cathete rs or conventional angiograph ic cathetersThe PVA (po lyvinyl alcohol loam) and/or Gelloam particles we re used as embolic materials in t hese cases