[Transcutaneous transsplenic catheterization of the splenic vein]

The authors have developed a method for transcutaneous transsplenic catheterization of the portal vein basin and used this method in clinical studies. This method permits a higher quality of spot splenoportography, selective catheterization and embolization of the gastric veins in bleedings from varicose veins of the esophagus in the patients in whom catheterization of the portal vein bain via the transcutaneous transhepatic approach is impossible because of liver tumors of occlusive stenotic deformation of the portal vein.