Editing Embolization (section)

== Disadvantages ==
* User dependent success rate
* Risk of emboli reaching healthy tissue potentially causing gastric, stomach or duodenal ulcers.<ref name="pmid17355414">{{cite journal | vauthors = Carretero C, Munoz-Navas M, Betes M, Angos R, Subtil JC, Fernandez-Urien I, De la Riva S, Sola J, Bilbao JI, de Luis E, Sangro B | display-authors = 6 | title = Gastroduodenal injury after radioembolization of hepatic tumors | journal = The American Journal of Gastroenterology | volume = 102 | issue = 6 | pages = 1216–1220 | date = June 2007 | pmid = 17355414 | doi = 10.1111/j.1572-0241.2007.01172.x | hdl = 10171/27487 | s2cid = 121385 | hdl-access = free }}</ref>  There are methods, techniques and devices that decrease the occurrence of this type of adverse side effect.<ref name="pmid23462064">{{cite journal | vauthors = Arepally A, Chomas J, Kraitchman D, Hong K | title = Quantification and reduction of reflux during embolotherapy using an antireflux catheter and tantalum microspheres: ex vivo analysis | journal = Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology | volume = 24 | issue = 4 | pages = 575–580 | date = April 2013 | pmid = 23462064 | doi = 10.1016/j.jvir.2012.12.018 }}</ref>
* Not suitable for everyone
* Recurrence more likely