Clinical Application of Selective Celiac and Superior Mesenteric Arteriography

During the past few years, the trend toward selectivity in vascular opacification examinations has increased. Percutaneous selective celiac and superior mesenteric arteriography was first described in detail by Ödman in 1956 and was the subject of his monograph in 1958 (1, 2). The procedure, however, is still in its formative phase, and its future place in the diagnostic armamentarium of gastrointestinal disorders uncertain. This paper will describe the authors' experience with the examination during the past two years at the Graduate Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia, indicating the amount of pathological material which can be uncovered when this method is widely utilized in a 350-bed general hospital.