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. 1995 Dec;37(6):835–837. doi: 10.1136/gut.37.6.835

Embolotherapy for massive upper gastrointestinal haemorrhage secondary to metastatic renal cell carcinoma: report of three cases.

M A Blake 1, A Owens 1, D P O'Donoghue 1, D P MacErlean 1
PMCID: PMC1382948  PMID: 8537057

Abstract

Three cases are reported in which angiographic embolisation therapy was effective in arresting upper gastrointestinal bleeding secondary to metastatic hypernephroma. Each patient had histologically confirmed disseminated renal cell carcinoma and presented with recurrent haematemeses with a successful outcome following palliative embolisation therapy.

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