Interventional Radiology
Interventional radiologists are physicians who specialize in minimally invasive, targeted treatments.
Treatment Options
Interventional Radiology is extremely versatile.
Among other things, it can be used to:
Among other things, it can be used to:
- Freeze and destroy cancer cells
- Deliver radiation-coated beads or chemotherapy to tumors
- Remove blood clots
- Cauterize and close abnormal veins
- Fix spinal fractures
- Insert and fix dialysis catheters
- Drain pockets of infection inside the body
Conditions/Procedures
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Deep Vein Thrombosis
- Inferior Vena Cava Filter Placement and Removal
- Pulmonary Embolism
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Gastrointestinal
- Abscess
- Biliary Interventions
- Catheter Embolization
- Chronic Mesenteric Ischemia and Vascular Stenting
- Gastric Tube Placement
- Liver Disease
- Transjugular Liver Biopsy
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Genitourinary
- Cryoablation
- Percutaneous Nephrostomy Tube
- Suprapubic Catheters
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Hypertension and end-stage renal disease
- AV Fistulas, AV Fistulogram, Angioplasty, Stent and Declot
- Hemodialysis Catheter Insertion
- Kidney Failure
- Peritoneal Dialysis Catheters
- Renal Vascular Hypertension
- Venogram
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Men's health
- Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
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Oncology
- Image-Guided Needle Biopsy
- Intrathecal Chemotherapy
- Liver Directed Therapies
- Mediport-Portacath Placement
- Percutaneous Ablation
- Preoperative Embolization of Hypervascular Tumors
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Pain Management
- Epidural Injection
- Steroid Joint Injection and Bakers Cyst Aspiration
- Vertebral Compression and Sacral Fractures
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Pediatrics
- AVM (arteriovenous malformation) Embolization
- Hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia (HHT)
- Pediatric Biliary-Enteric Strictures
- Peripheral Vascular Disease (PAD)
- Varicose Veins
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Women's Health
- Pelvic Congestion Syndrome
- Uterine fibroids
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