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Richard K. Danis, MD; Michael K. Wolverson, MD; Edward R. Graviss, MD; Dennis M. O'Connor, MD; Patrick F. Joyce, MD; Thomas V. Cradock, MD

Am J Dis Child. 1979;133(5):503-506.

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.

(Am J Dis Child 133:503-506, 1979)

Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Radiology (Drs Wolverson and Graviss), Pediatric Surgery (Drs Danis and Cradock), and Pediatrics (Drs Danis, Graviss, and O'Connor), Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children, St Louis; and the Department of Radiology, St Louis University Medical School, and Firmin Desloge Hospital, St Louis (Drs Wolverson, and Joyce).

Footnotes
Reprint requests to Cardinal Glennon Memorial Hospital for Children, 1465 S Grand Blvd, St Louis, MO 63104 (Dr Graviss).

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