The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.-Sir Winston Churchill Healthcare is widely viewed as an essential service and even a right of all members of society. Global dynamic changes within the past decade in the legislative, financial and technological areas have had a dramatic effect on the practice of radiology. Interventional radiology is no exception. The provision of basic he...

Transthoracic needle biopsy (TNB) of pulmonary nodules requires the skills of two specialists: (1) the radiologist and (2) the pathologist. From the radiologist’s perspective, the goal is very simple: to obtain a sufficient amount of material through the needle to allow the pathologist to make a diagnosis with a minimum of complications to the patient. Similarly, the goal of the pathologist is ...

Affiliations 1 Diagnostic, Interventional, and Pediatric Radiology, INSELSPITAL – Bern University Hospital, Bern 2 Department of Radiology, Neuroradiology, Sonography and Nuclearmedicine, Merciful Brethren Hospital, Trier 3 Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf, Hamburg 4 Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery und Transplant Surgery, University Medica...

Hepatocellular cancer (hcc) is the 2nd most frequent cause of cancer-related death in men and the 6th in women1. In 2008, the number of new liver cancer cases was estimated to be 748,300 worldwide, and 695,900 deaths were attributed to liver cancer that same year1. Overall, liver transplantation, surgical resection, and locoregional therapies are the treatment options for hcc. However, only a s...

From the Department of Radiology, Division of Vascular Imaging and Intervention (T.G.W., S.P.K., K.Y., S.W.), Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; Department of Medical Imaging (S.K.), Scarborough General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Department of Interventional Radiology (P.D.), West Allis Memorial Hospital, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Department of Radiology, Division of In...

Introduction:   Nowadays we are witnessing an exponential application of interventional radiology techniques in various communities as well as Iran. Radiological technique is regarded as  the  2nd  contributing  factor in  increasing  the  amount  of  public  doses  in various societies. So that related radiation protection organization has recommended measuring patient d...

Background: To ensure precision and accuracy during interventional radiologic (IR) procedures, navigation systems are utilized. There are four main categories of guidance systems that can be used to assist in IR procedures: optical system, electromagnetic (EM) tracking, Cone Bean Computer Tomography (CBCT) and Magnetic Navigation system. Objective: The purpose of this report is to examine some ...

Interventional techniques aim to find safer and better ways to treat vascular diseases even in many instances, the interventional radiology solutions has been considered the only treatment option for the patients. Interventional radiologists are specialists who perform minimally invasive procedures instead of surgery or other treatments. These procedures apply various imaging and catheterizatio...

There have been rapid and significant advances in diagnostic and interventional radiology, including interventional neuroradiology, in recent years. Many intracranial vascular pathologies are being successfully managed by endovascular interventional neuroradiology techniques. These techniques include procedures like embolization of vascular tumours and arterio-venous malformations, coiling of c...

From the Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Jefferson Radiology, Hartford Hospital, 85 Seymour St, Ste 200, Hartford, CT 06106 (P.C.M.); Department of Radiology, Boston Healthcare System, VAMC Boston, Massachusetts (C.J.G.); Department of Medical Imaging, Scarborough General Hospital, Richmond Hill, Ontario, Canada (S.K.); Department of Radiology, GI/GU Division, Massachusetts G...