Main description:

The 11 chapters in this book have been selected from the contents of the Interventional Radiology section in Grainger & Allison's Diagnostic Radiology 6e. These chapters provide a succinct up-to-date overview of current imaging techniques and their clinical applications in daily practice and it is hoped that with this concise format the user will quickly grasp the fundamentals they need to know. Throughout these chapters, the relative merits of different procedures and techniques are described, variations are discussed and recent imaging advances are detailed.

Contents:

Basic Clinical Requirements of Interventional

Radiology,

Jim Reekers

Angiography: Principles, Techniques and

Complications,

James E. Jackson . James F.M. Meaney

Aortic Intervention,

Christopher J. Hammond . Anthony A. Nicholson

Peripheral Vascular Disease

Interventions,

Robert A. Morgan . Anna-Maria Belli .

Joo-Young Chun

Image-Guided Biopsy and Ablation

Techniques,

David J. Breen . Elizabeth E. Rutherford .

Beth Shepherd

Image-Guided Drainage Techniques,

Michael M. Maher . Owen J. O'Connor

Hepatobiliary Intervention,

Aoife N. Keeling . Bhaskar Ganai . Michael J. Lee

Vascular Genitourinary Tract

Intervention,

Jonathan G. Moss . Reddi Prasad Yadavali

Non-vascular Genitourinary Tract

Intervention,

Uday Patel . Lakshmi Ratnam

Venous Access and Interventions,

Anthony Watkinson . Richard J. Morse

Spinal Interventions,

Konstantinos Katsanos . Tarun Sabharwal