How many procedures are considered interventional radiology?

How many procedures are considered interventional radiology?

Kenneth W. Chin (M.D., F.A.C.R.) gives expert video advice on: What are the advantages of interventional radiology? and more...

Interventional radiology encompasses hundreds of different kinds of procedures. Of the procedures that most patients are most familiar with, they include procedures such as balloon angioplasty of narrowed blood vessels or stenting. Biopsies through tiny little incisions in the skin are also part of the realm of interventional radiology. We will also place catheters or plastic tubes in areas where the tubes that normally conduct fluid from one part of the body to another could be blocked. So all of these are within that realm of interventional radiology.