Bleeding gastric varices are increasingly being obliterated with the aid of endoscopic injection of n-butyl-cyanoacrylate (histoacryl) diluted with lipiodol. This glue acts as a tissue adhesive that polymerizes on contact with blood in a gastric varix. Severe glue pulmonary embolism is a rare complication of injection therapy. This case involves a 52-year-old man with fundal gastric varices, wh...

Urgent upper gastrointestinal endoscopy was performed and documented a small esophageal varix without evidence of recent bleeding and, in the inferior wall of the second portion of the duodenum, a 20-mm elevated longitudinal lesion with a central hematinic depression, at that time misinterpreted as a subepithelial lesion with a visible vessel, and therefore, an endoclip was placed ( Fig. 1 ). F...

DOI: 10.4046/trd.2011.71.1.50 ISSN: 1738-3536(Print)/2005-6184(Online) Tuberc Respir Dis 2011;71:50-54 CopyrightC2011. The Korean Academy of Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases. All rights reserved. Pulmonary Lipiodol Embolism after Transcatheter Chemoembolization for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Woo Ri Park, M.D., Jung Tae Kim, M.D., Hye Suk Han, M.D., Sung Jin Kim, M.D., Kang Hyeon Choe, M.D., ...