Smoking Impedes Embolization Treatment in Lungs (IMAGE)

Radiological Society of North America

Smoking Impedes Embolization Treatment in Lungs

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Images in a 52-year-old woman with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia demonstrating on left pulmonary artery angiogram an arteriovenous malformation (AVM) at, A, B, the left base. C, Selective angiogram after embolization of the AVM by using coils. D, E, Angiogram shows embolization for persistence treated with repeat embolization performed 2 years after initial embolization.

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