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What does embolization mean?

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Noun
  1. (surgery) A nonsurgical, minimally invasive procedure that effects the selective occlusion of blood vessels by purposely introducing emboli.
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Fibroid embolization is considered a safe procedure, designed to improve your medical condition and save you having a major operation.
A specially trained doctor called an interventional radiologist will do the fibroid embolization.
Chronic use of statins has reduced thrombogenicity during PCI-induced plaque disruption and lessened distal embolization of microdebris.
This embolization stopped the epistaxis and saved the patient from a lethal issue without any aftereffect.
A left frontotemporal craniotomy was performed on the day following the embolization.
The use of a peripherally inserted central catheter is occasionally complicated by intravascular fracture and central embolization of the catheter fragment.

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