Urgent arterial embolization of ruptured renal angiomyolipoma

Abstract

The most undesired complication of renal angi- omyolipoma (AML) is bleeding. Because of tumor rupture, the bleeding can spread to the retroperitoneal field and can be severe enough to be life threatening. We report a case of retroperitoneal hemorrhage caused by a ruptured AML that was successfully treated with transarterial embolization with N-butyl cyanoacrylate.

Keywords

• Hemorrhage
• kidney
• therapeutics
• neoplasms
• angiomyolipoma
• enbucrilate