Interventional Diagnostic and Therapeutic Procedures

This monograph is most unusual. It deals in cedure techniques are also meticulously de­ depth with the technical aspects of most special scribed. These include arthrography in a procedures used in diagnostic radiology, both number of anatomical areas, e.g., knee, ankle, interventional and non-interventional. hip. Other procedures considered are diskog­ A large section is devoted to the various raphy, myelography, percutaneous transhepatic areas of angiography. As a preliminary, pre­ cholangiography, splenoportography, sialog­ angiographic orders, arrangements in the radio­ raphy, bronchography, hysterosalpingography, graphic room, appropriate equipment, etc., are lymphangiography and methods of localization described, and similar information is detailed of mammographically demonstrated non-palpa­ regarding the post-angiographic period. A dis­ ble breast lesions. cussion of the different types of catheters is Direct interventional techniques are also dis­ most helpful. The various areas of angiography cussed, including percutaneous lung biopsy, are described in depth. Every aspect of the bone biopsy, non-operative extraction of re­ technique is considered in detail. These include tained biliary calculi and retrieval of intra­ the type and amount of contrast medium to be vascular foreign bodies. Transluminal angio­ used, the technical factors in the examination, plasty, using the Grtintzig technique (currently indications, contraindications and possible a popular subject), is also considered. complications. The subsections of angiography An excellent bibliography for each section addressed include percutaneous axillary angi­ discussed in the text is appended at the back ography, translumbar aortography, thoracic of the book.