Image-Guided Palliative Interventions.

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. PMID: 31446918 [PubMed - in process]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31446918?dopt=Abstract

Source: The Surgical Clinics of North America - August 27, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Requarth JA Tags: Surg Clin North Am Source Type: research