Vascular and interventional radiologists (IR’s) use imaging, like x-rays, to see inside a patient’s body, pinpoint where the problem is, and map out how to get there without a surgical operation. These highly-skilled physicians use a very small nick in the skin to guide catheters or other instruments through the vascular system, urinary tract, or gastrointestinal tract. This is a minimally-invasive manner to treat disease directly at the source, or to take tissue samples for analysis. To make an a...
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