Society of interventional radiology position statement: prevention of unintentionally retained foreign bodies during interventional radiology procedures.

From Virginia Interventional and Vascular Associates (J.D.S.), Fredericksburg; Department of Radiology (W.E.A.S.), University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia; Department of Radiology (J.D.S.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Center for Devices and Radiological Health (D.L.M.), Food and Drug Administration, Silver Spring; Department of Interventional Radiology (K.G.), Greater Baltimore Medical Center, Baltimore, Maryland; Department of Radiology (R.G.D.), University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina; Department of Radiology (M.D.K.), University of California, Los Angeles, Medical School, Los Angeles; Department of Radiology (R.L.G.), University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Department of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (A.M.C.), University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston; Department of Radiology (R.S.), University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas; Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology (J.R.D.), Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri; Department of Radiology (J.E.S.), Beth Israel Medical Center; Department of Radiology, Interventional Radiology Service (R.H.T.), Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York; Division of Angiography and Interventional Radiology (M.S.S.), Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology (G.B.), Meir Medical Center, Kfar Saba, Israel. Final revision received and accepted July 18, 2011. Address correspondence to J.D.S., c/o Debbie Katsarelis, 3975 Fair Ridge Dr., Suite 400 N., Fairfax, VA 22033; E-mail: [email protected]