The described angiographic classification provides considerable information concerning the characteristics of AVMs in the body and extremities, the optimal therapeutic approach, and the likely therapeutic outcome.
Ethanol embolization has the potential for cure in the management of AVMs of the body and extremities but with acceptable risk of minor and major complications.
Balloon-occluded retrograde transvenous obliteration is an effective treatment for the obliteration of gastric varices. However, application of this procedure to severely compromised patients should be considered carefully.
Flexible stents effectively relieved acute colonic obstruction secondary to malignant rectosigmoid neoplasm. Stent placement allowed patients to undergo single-stage surgery in most cases and provided palliative decompression in cases of inoperable or disseminated disease.
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