Handbook of interventional radiologic procedures

Cost analysis of adjunct hypnosis with sedation during outpatient interventional radiologic procedures.

PURPOSE To compare the cost of standard intravenous conscious sedation with that of sedation with adjunct self-hypnotic relaxation during outpatient interventional radiologic procedures. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data were reviewed from a prospective randomized study in which patients undergoing vascular and renal interventional procedures underwent either standard sedation (n = 79) or sedation w...

Interventional Radiologic Treatment of Hepatocellular Carcinoma.

The current treatment modalities for patients with hepatocellular carcinoma are discussed in this review. Hepatocellular carcinoma arises in up to 90% of cirrhotic patients, mainly due to chronic viral hepatitis and alcohol abuse. Nearly two-thirds of all patients with hepatocellular carcinoma are diagnosed at advanced stages, thus causing problems with treatment. Regardless of the stage of the...

Interventional spinal procedures.

The interventional procedures for disk herniation and protrusion by percutaneous techniques are decompressive such as chemodiscolysis with chimopapain, nucleo-discectomy introduced by Onik, LASER discectomy, and recently nucleoplasty, and decompressive and direct antinflammatory such as chemiodiscolysis with an Oxygen-ozone mixture. These techniques have minimized the invasive nature of surgery...

Handbook of Parametric and Nonparametric Statistical Procedures

Facial reanimation procedures depicted on radiologic imaging.

Various facial reanimation procedures can be performed for treating patients with chronic facial nerve paralysis. The radiologic imaging features of static and dynamic techniques are reviewed in this article with clinical correlation, including brow lift, eyelid weights and springs, gracilis free flaps, fascia lata grafts, temporalis flaps, and Gore-Tex suspension slings. Although the anatomic ...