Nasopharyngeal fibroma. Significance of super-selective angiography and embolization
Lallemant, Y.; Gehanno, P.; Merland, J.J.; Levesque, M.; Nahum, M.
Annales d'Oto-Laryngologie et de Chirurgie Cervico Faciale Bulletin de la Societe d'Oto-Laryngologie des Hopitaux de Paris 92(3): 127-136
1975
ISSN/ISBN: 0003-438X PMID: 1217805 Document Number: 96212
The authors describe a case of naso-pharyngeal fibroma which they treated, in order to prevent per-operative haemorrhage, by means of embolisation of the arterial pedicles. The result was very satisfactory, the operation being practically bloodless. They stress the advantages of angiography for obtaining information about these tumours. And, thinking ahead on the subject of embolisation, they weigh up the risk of haemorrhage due to surgery (which remains considerable whatever methods have been used hitherto) against the possible risk of embolism which appears to be negligible if it is carried out by a radiologist who is expert in this method.