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CVIR Endovascular
Fig. 1 | CVIR Endovascular

Fig. 1

From: Transcatheter arterial embolization for unruptured renal angiomyolipoma using a 1.8-Fr tip microballoon catheter with a mixture of ethanol and Lipiodol

Fig. 1

A 70-year-old man with left renal AML (Patient 6); the diameter of AML was 40 mm. a. The pre-procedure CT image showing a 40-mm left renal AML (arrow). b. Left renal angiography showing a tumor feeding artery (black arrow) and an aneurysm of the AML (white arrow). c. 1.8-Fr tip microballoon catheter was advanced into the feeding artery of the tumor (arrow), and angiography showed contrast enhancement of the tumor. d. The mixture of the ethanol and Lipiodol was injected under microballoon inflation. e. Left renal angiography showing the disappearance of contrast enhancement of the tumor after TAE. The AML, which was filled with Lipiodol and ethanol is shown with arrow. f. Follow-up CT after TAE at 10 months showing shrinkage of the tumor and no renal infarcts

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