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AJNR: American Journal of Neuroradiology logoLink to AJNR: American Journal of Neuroradiology
. 1993 Sep-Oct;14(5):1113-7.

Percutaneous injection of an alcoholic embolizing emulsion as an alternative preoperative embolization for spine tumor.

J Chiras 1, C Cognard 1, M Rose 1, C Dessauge 1, N Martin 1, L Pierot 1, P F Plouin 1
PMCID: PMC8332756  PMID: 8237690

Abstract

A hypervascular pheochromocytoma metastasis in the sixth cervical vertebra was embolized preoperatively by an intravertebral injection of an alcoholic embolizing emulsion, when transarterial embolization was considered too dangerous because of the possibility of inadvertent embolization of the intracerebral vertebrobasilar territory.

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