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[Embolization for renal carcinoma]
1Department of Urology, Xuanwu Hospital, Capital University of Medical Sciences, Beijing 100053.
Objective:
To decrease bleeding during renal malignancy resection and to get higher resection rate as a paliative treatment for advanced renal carcinoma.
Methods:
50 cases of renal carcinoma were treated with renal artery embolization from 1981 to 1996. In 96% of the cases the tumour size was larger than 7 cm in diameter. Gelatine, spring coil with antineoplastic agent were used as embolizer.
Results:
After tembolization, the average bleeding of 46 cases in nephrectomy was 254 ml. Resection rate was 10%. Pain and fever varied after embolization in most cases. In 82.6% of the cases, surgery was done within 48 hours after embolization. There was no mortality and morbolity in this series.
Conclusions:
Renal artery embolization is an effective and safe procedure. It could be used as an adjuvant therapy for renal carcinoma.