[Indications for selective embolizations in maxillofacial pathology].

There has been remarkable progress in the therapy of maxillofacial disorders, mainly as a result of the development of Djinjian and Merland's techniques for the exploration and selective embolization of the region supplied by the external carotid artery. These methods facilitate management of bone and skin angiomas and help to resolve problems of therapeutic arteriography for orofacial tumors. Two particularly hypervascular types of tumor: nasopharyngeal angiofibroma and carotid glomus tumor, as well as the hemorrhagic complications of facial epitheliomas, are conditions in which extremely useful data is obtained. Post-traumatic arteriovenous fistula can be treated by introducing inflatable balloons that are releasable or linked to a catheter. Acute severe epistaxis following injury responds to emergency embolization of the external carotid artery branches.