Application of Transcatheter Therapeutic Embolization for Control of Severe Bleeding in Patients with Cancer of Cervix

Abstract

Pelvic artery embolization, which was performed by inserting gelform sponges and steel coils into the internal iliac arteries via an angiographic Seldinger catheter, was applied in three patients of cancer of cervix in their end stages for controlling the severe bleeding from bladder in one case and from cervix in other two cases. It is suggested that this means was very advantageous to control the massive bleeding if other conservative measures failed and also suggested that administration of Nitrogen mustard through the pelvic arterial catheter was very effective for reducing the severe pains of the patients with pelvic infiltration of the cancer.