Image-Guided Palliative Interventions

Autor: Jay A. Requarth
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: Surgical Clinics of North America. 99:921-939
ISSN: 0039-6109
DOI: 10.1016/j.suc.2019.06.003
Popis: This article reviews a few surgical palliative care procedures that can be performed by surgeons and interventional radiologists using image-guided techniques. Treatment of recurrent pleural effusions, gastrostomy feeding tube maintenance, percutaneous cholecystostomy, and transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunts (TIPS) with embolotherapy of bleeding stomal varices is discussed.
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