Intervention curriculum

The interventional radiology curriculum is one of our curriculum articles and aims to be a collection of articles that represent the core interventional knowledge. As the different procedures are intrinsically linked to the various radiology subspecialties, its content is mixed with some of the other curriculum topics.

Definition

Topics are divided into radiology areas with their respective interventional procedures.

Neuroradiology interventions

• diagnostic cerebral angiography
• neurovascular revascularization procedures
• neurovascular exclusion procedures

Arterial procedures

• diagnostic angiography
• arterial revascularization procedures
  • angioplasty
    • carotid stenting
  • atherectomy
  • chronic total occlusion revascularization
  • embolic protection
  • vascular endoprosthesis (stents)
  • thrombolysis
• arterial exclusion procedures
  • aortic endografts
  • closure devices
  • embolization
  • endoleak repair
  • vascular malformations other than CNS
• other
  • intra-aortic balloon pump

Venous and lymphatic procedures

• venous access procedures
  • tunnelled central line insertion, e.g. Hickman or Brovaic line
  • PICC (peripherally inserted central catheter)
• endocrine venous sampling
• hemodialysis interventions
• lymphatic interventions

Thoracic interventions

• mediastinal biopsy
• lung biopsy
• pleural biopsy
• preoperative pulmonary nodule localization
• pleural drainage

Liver and biliary interventional procedures

• percutaneous transhepatic biliary interventions
  • percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC)
  • percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD)
  • percutaneous cholecystostomy (PC)
• percutaneous liver biopsy 
  • ultrasound-guided 
  • CT-guided
• percutaneous collections drainage
  • ultrasound-guided
  • CT-guided
• angiographic procedures 
  • transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS)
  • transjugular liver biopsy (TJLB)

Splenic interventions

• splenic biopsy

Genitourinary interventions

• urinary tract procedures
  • percutaneous nephrostomy
  • antegrade ureteric stent
  • retrograde ureteric stent
    • double J stent
• image-guided biopsies
  • renal biopsy
  • adrenal biopsy
  • prostate biopsy
• angiographic procedures
  • ovarian vein embolization
  • uterine artery embolization
  • varicocele embolization
  • prostatic artery embolization 

Gastrointestinal Interventions

• angiographic procedures
  • upper gastrointestinal bleeding
  • esophageal stenting and dilatation
  • PIG and RIG
  • colonic stent insertion
  • NG/NJ tube insertion
  • herniography

Musculoskeletal interventions

• CT guided bone biopsy
• arthrography
  • shoulder arthrography
  • elbow arthrography
  • wrist arthrography
  • hip arthrography
  • sacroiliac joint arthrography
  • knee arthrography
  • ankle arthrography
  • foot arthrography
• tenosynography
• therapeutic joint injections
• ultrasound-guided joint and periarticular aspiration

Spinal interventions

• spine biopsies 
• fluoroscopic lumbar puncture
• treatment of non-operative back pain
  • sacroiliac joint injection
  • facet joint injection
  • spinal epidural injection
  • transforaminal epidural injection
  • interlaminar epidural injection
  • caudal epidural injection (via the sacral foramen)
  • transforaminal nerve root block

Breast interventions

• breast cyst aspiration
• breast core-biopsy
• hook-wire insertion
• Mammotome™

Oncologic procedures

• tumor embolization
• tumor ablation
  • energy-based techniques
    • thermal ablation
      • radiofrequency ablation (RFA)
      • microwave ablation (MWA)
      • cryoablation
    • non-thermal ablation
      • irreversible electroporation (IRE)
  • non-energy based techniques 
    • chemical ablation 

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