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. 2013 Nov 29;54(1):54–62. doi: 10.2176/nmc.oa2013-0183

Table 3.

Summary of treatments in 987 procedures

No. of procedures (%)
Treatment strategy
  Presurgical 453 (45.9)
  Preradiosurgical 228 (23.1)
    Palliative 138 (14.0)
  Curative 101 (10.2)
  Others 10 (1.0)
  Unknown 57 (5.8)
Treatment material
  NBCA 732 (74.2)
  Coil alone 117 (11.9)
Onyx 54 (5.5)
  Other liquid emolic material 15 (1.5)
  Particle alone 4 (0.4)
  Others 9 (0.9)
  Unknown 56 (5.6)
Number of times of embolization sessions
  1 661 (67.0)
  2 152 (15.4)
  3 65 (6.6)
  ≥ 4 54 (5.5)
  Unknown 55 (5.5)
Number of pedicles embolization
  0 (trial) 11 (1.1)
  1 306 (31.0)
  2 336 (34.0)
  3 155 (15.7)
  ≥ 4 113 (11.4)
  Unknown 66 (6.8)

NBCA: N-butyl cyanoacrylate.