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  • Title: Preoperative embolization of Wilms' tumors.
    Author: Danis RK, Wolverson MK, Graviss ER, O'Connor DM, Joyce PF, Cradock TV.
    Journal: Am J Dis Child; 1979 May; 133(5):503-6. PubMed ID: 219686.
    Abstract:
    In two patients with Wilms' tumors, the ipsilateral kidney was nonfunctional. To facilitate initial surgical removal of the tumors, a preoperative transcatheter embolization was performed following diagnostic arteriography. Preoperative embolization of a renal tumor reduces the vascularity of the lesion prior to surgery, and a patient in whom primary surgical removal of the tumor would carry unacceptable risk may be converted into one in whom primary surgical removal is safe.
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