What is a Pediatric Interventional Radiologist?
Pediatric interventional radiologists are doctors who perform minimally invasive treatments using imaging guidance. They guide small needles, catheters (tubes) and other minimally invasive medical equipment into the body through tiny incisions in the skin. These minimally invasive instruments are manipulated within in the body by the doctors, who guide the instruments in real time by seeing into the body, using X-ray, CT scan, ultrasound or MRI. Interventional radiologists ( http://www.sirweb.org/ ) pioneered modern minimally invasive image guided procedures, sometimes called the “surgery of the future,” techniques which have now been disseminated into many other medical specialties. Pediatric radiologists ( http://www.pedrad.org/ ) are doctors who specialize in imaging and treatment of children and their diseases. Pediatric interventional radiologists have expertise in both of these areas.
