Interventional Radiology for Medical Students

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Kok, Hong Kuan (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Ryan, Elizabeth (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Asadi, Hamed (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Lee, Michael (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Interventional radiology .; Vascular surgery.; Radiotherapy.; Interventional Radiology.; Vascular Surgery.

This book provides easily accessible technique specific information on interventional radiology (IR) procedures at a basic level for medical students and junior doctors. It covers subject topics in both vascular and non-vascular interventional radiology appropriate for a non-specialist audience. Cas...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Principles, signs and symptoms of peripheral vascular disease
• 2. Endovascular treatment of peripheral vascular disease
• 3. Emergency embolisation procedures (bleeding)
• 4. Elective embolisation procedures (UAE, varicocele, chemoembolization)
• 5. Venous thromboembolism, filters and intervention
• 6. Vascular access
• 7. Image guided biopsies
• 8. Image guided drainage of fluid collections
• 9. Biliary and genitourinary interventions
• 10. MSK interventions (including vertebroplasty)
• 11. Image guided therapy in cancer (thermal, cryo, chemical ablations)
• 12. Ischaemic stroke interventions
• 13. Subarachnoid haemorrhage and intracranial aneurysms
• 14. CNS arteriovenous malformations
• 15. Nerve root injections.