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Future of IR: Emerging Techniques, Looking to the Future…and Learning from the Past

Innovation has been the cornerstone of interventional radiology since the early years of the founders, with a multitude of new therapeutic approaches developed over the last 50 years. What is the future holding for us? This article presents an overview of the in-coming developments that are catching...

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Autores principales: Midulla, Marco, Pescatori, Lorenzo, Chevallier, Olivier, Nakai, M., Ikoma, A., Gehin, Sophie, Berthod, Pierre-Emmanuel, Ne, Romaric, Loffroy, Romaric, Dake, Michael
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Ubiquity Press 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6396039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30828696
http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/jbsr.1727
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Sumario:Innovation has been the cornerstone of interventional radiology since the early years of the founders, with a multitude of new therapeutic approaches developed over the last 50 years. What is the future holding for us? This article presents an overview of the in-coming developments that are catching on at this moment, particularly focusing on three items: the new applications of existing techniques, particularly embolotherapy and interventional oncology; the cutting-edge devices; the imaging technologies at the forefront of the image-guidance. Besides this, clinical vision and patient relation remain crucial for the future of the discipline.