What is a Vascular and Interventional Radiologist?
We are a small group of highly trained subspecialists (numbering around 3000 in the US) highly skilled in both diagnostic imaging and technical catheter related procedures. Interventional radiologists use X-rays and other imaging tools to “see” inside the body while they guide narrow tubes (catheters) and other very small instruments through blood vessels and other pathways of the body to the site of a problem, treating a variety of medical disorders, without surgery. Vascular and Interventional Radiology has been referred to as “The Surgery of the 21st Century.” Please visit the third link listed below for more information regarding my subspecialty: Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (www.scvir.org). At Boca Raton Community Hospital, a highly respected community hospital in Boca Raton, FL, the Vascular and Interventional Radiologists perform a wide variety of these new minimally invasive yet highly effective procedures. These “Special Procedures” include: –Diagnos
We are a small group of highly trained subspecialists (numbering around 3000 in the US) highly skilled in both diagnostic imaging and technical catheter related procedures. Interventional radiologists use X-rays and other imaging tools to “see” inside the body while they guide narrow tubes (catheters) and other very small instruments through blood vessels and other pathways of the body to the site of a problem, treating a variety of medical disorders, without surgery. Vascular and Interventional Radiology has been referred to as “The Surgery of the 21st Century.” Please visit the third link listed below for more information regarding my subspecialty: Society of Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology (www.scvir.org). At Boca Raton Regional Hospital, a highly respected community hospital in Boca Raton, FL, the Vascular and Interventional Radiologists perform a wide variety of these new minimally invasive yet highly effective procedures. These “Special Procedures” include: –Diagnost
