Persistent Sciatic Artery and Successful Uterine Artery Embolization: Report of Three Cases
Received 11 March 2008; received in revised form 21 February 2009; accepted 2 March 2009. published online 22 April 2009.
The incidence of persistent sciatic artery (PSA) was evaluated in the setting of uterine artery embolization (UAE) for symptomatic uterine leiomyomata over a 3-year period. PSA was present in 0.83% of patients or 0.69% of limbs undergoing UAE at a single institution. The authors present three cases of PSA in which successful treatment with UAE was performed. Interventionalists should have thorough anatomic knowledge of PSA, and this rare yet important anatomic variant should be included among the pertinent findings during UAE.
Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Address correspondence to H.S.K., Division of Interventional Radiology and Image-guided Medicine, Department of Radiology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1364 Clifton Rd. NE, Suite E-118, Atlanta, GA 30322
Neither of the authors has identified a conflict of interest.
1 Current address: Department of Radiology, Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York.
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