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Hideaki Kakizawa1, Naoyuki Toyota, Akira Naito
1Department of Radiology, Programs for Applied Biomedicine, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3 Kasumi-cho, Minami-ku, Hiroshima 734-8551, Japan.
Abstract:
We report a 61-year-old woman with arteriovenous fistula (AVF) of a splenic artery caused by traumatic injury, which was successfully occluded by percutaneous transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE). We embolized the AVF with a coaxial system using six microcoils. This case suggests that super-selective TAE for traumatic AVF of a splenic artery is an effective and primary choice of first treatment. The use of a microcatheter and microcoils is an alternative to surgery.
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