Central Venous Catheter Inserted into the Mediastinum

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Managing Common Interventional Radiology Complications A Case Based Approach

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Managing Common Interventional Radiology Complications

Lakshmi Ratnam • Uday Patel Anna Maria Belli Editors

Managing Common Interventional Radiology Complications A Case Based Approach

Editors

Lakshmi Ratnam Department of Radiology St. George’s Hospital London UK

Anna Maria Belli Department of Radiology St. George’s Hospital London UK

Uday Patel Department of Radiology St. George’s Hospital and Medical School London UK

ISBN 978-1-4471-5501-0 ISBN 978-1-4471-5502-7 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4471-5502-7 Springer London Heidelberg New York Dordrecht

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Preface

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 mo