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Tumor embolization
Response to ‘Critical appraisal of Gelfoam embolization technique in retinoblastoma treatment: a call for caution and further investigation’
  1. Fouad Georges Akkari1,2,
  2. Guillaume Saliou3,4,
  3. Bruno Bartolini5
  1. 1 Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Bruxelles, Belgium
  2. 2 Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
  3. 3 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
  4. 4 UNIL, Lausanne, Switzerland
  5. 5 Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, CHUV - Lausanne University Hospital, Lausanne, Switzerland
  1. Correspondence to Dr Fouad Georges Akkari; fouad.g.akkari{at}hotmail.com

https://doi.org/10.1136/jnis-2024-022989

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    We thank Dr Wang et al for their detailed and constructive comments1 about our recent publication titled ‘Absorbable gelatin compressed sponge (Gelfoam) embolization of distal external carotid artery branches in intra-arterial chemotherapy for retinoblastoma’.2 We greatly appreciate your insights, which have provided us with an opportunity to clarify certain points of our study and open up discussion on important aspects to consider in future work.

    We would like to address each of the concerns raised:

    1. Sample size and generalizability: We agree that the sample size of our cohort (11 patients and 14 infusions of intra-arterial chemotherapy using Gelfoam pledgets) limits the generalizability of our findings. However, our primary aim was to describe this innovative and very easy technique so that it could be performed …

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    • Contributors FGA, GS, and BB: drafted the article or revised it critically forimportant intellectual content.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.

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