[X-ray intravascular surgery in oncologic urology].

The outcomes of treatment with intravascular embolization/chemoembolization and regional chemotherapy were analyzed in 862 patients with tumors of the kidney (n = 568), urinary bladder (n = 232) and prostate (n = 62). In renal cancer, the five-year survival rates after mechanical embolization followed by nephrectomy were 51%, those after chemoembolization and surgery, 77%. In inoperable cases, they were 3 and 25%, respectively (p < 0.