“Imaging of the Intervention” a new paradigm for our specialty

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Interventional Radiology (IR) is a subspecialty of diagnostic Radiology. It has dramatically developed in the recent past and has became part of daily practice in most Health Care centres in Europe and worldwide. Because of its major role in various diseases, IR has gained wide acceptance and despite turf battles on some intervention, IR are in a central position to create, perform, determine the indication and the follow-up of mini-invasive image guided interventions. It is common sense that optimized results and appropriate levels of activity of Interventional Radiology relies on sound clinical judgement but also in a large part on the results of Imaging workup. …