While embolization therapy has been used for many years in the treatment of nonmalignant
diseases of the chest, such as pulmonary arteriovenous malformation treatment and
bronchial artery embolization for hemorrhage, the application of transarterial techniques
to the treatment of chest neoplasms is relatively uncommon. Extrapolating from transarterial
chemoembolization techniques used for liver malignancy, investigators have recently
sought to expand the indications for transarterial techniques from the control of
symptoms such as bleeding to the control of disease progression and potentially survival
benefit in patients with malignancies in the chest. This article provides an overview
of the current embolotherapy techniques used in the treatment of patients with thoracic
malignancies.
Keywords
interventional radiology - lung cancer - malignancy - thorax - chemoembolization -
infusion - embolization - hemorrhage
