Interventional Radiology

Interventional Radiology is a comprehensive guide suitable for all levels of knowledge, from medical students, nurses and radiographers to young and aspiring interventional trainees and junior consultants wishing to improve their understanding of the techniques or pursue a career in interventional radiology. The text covers knowledge of key equipmetn and drugs used in routine interventional practice and explains the fundamental skills which form the bedrock of virtually all interventional techniques. The handbook gives practical and detailed accounts of how to carry out interventional procedures from the most simple, such as biopsies and drainages, to the most complex, like TIPPS and stentgrafts, in a step-by-step fashion. Interventional Radiology is written by a host of highly experienced interventionists considered experts in their fields. The book imparts many tricks and tips learned through many years of experience of triumph and disasters of carrying out intervention. The handbook forms a companion which acts like an expert opinion, immediately available when planning and carrying out interventional procedures.

ISBN 0199547726   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199547722 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 413 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Radiology Format Paperback   Height (mm) 180 Publication date 21 May 2009   Width (mm) 101 DEWEY 617.05   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General Pages 494

		List of abbreviations
		List of drugs
1		Informed consent		1
2		Drugs, sedation and analgesia		5
3		Equipment		21
4		Imaging		49
5		Arterial access for angiography and intervention		91
6		Arterial thrombolysis and mechanical thrombectomy		109
7		Angioplasty and stenting		123
8		Methods of arterial closure		163
9		Stentgrafting		171
10		Interventional radiology in transplantation		187
11		Interventional uro-radiology		221
12		Haemodialysis fistula		253
13		Hepatobiliary intervention		269
14		Gastro-intestinal intervention		283
15		Venous intervention		301
16		Interventional radiology in management of gynecological disease		327
17		Embolization techniques		341
18		Tumour ablation		361
19		Biopsy and drainage		387
20		Salivary and lacrimal ducts intervention		407
21		Foreign body retrieval/repositioning: arterial, venous, soft tissue		413
22		Musculoskeletal intervention		423
23		Interventions in the chest		449
		Index		463

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