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Embolization of left renal cell carcinoma prior to surgical removal. Ken U. Ekechukwu, MD, MPH, FACP.
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Some tumors like renal cell carcinoma are very vascular and their surgical resection can be bloody. Some surgeons electively embolize such tumors before surgery to reduce intra-operative bleeding. This patient had carcinoma of his left kidney and I embolized it with dry alcohol and gel-foam before it was removed the next day. The first image is a […]