Lakshmi Ratnam • Uday Patel
Anna Maria Belli
Editors

2014

A Case Based Approach

Although among the younger medical specialities, interventional radiology has rapidly established a central position in modern medical practice. The number and range of IR procedures is now wide and new procedures are pioneered all the time. Whether of a minor nature – say, image guided biopsy or drainage – or complex, such as superselective arterial embolization and EVAR, IR techniques have a high success rate, but more importantly being minimally invasive the morbidity is more favourable compared to alternative procedures, be they surgical or medical.