Interventional Radiology

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History

It wasn't long after x-rays were discovered that scientists began experimenting with interventional procedures. Early in the last century, a dedicated scientist injected contrast into one of his own arteries, and the field of angiography was born. Within a few decades, radiologists were looking at the arteries that supply the legs, the aorta and its branches in the chest and abdomen, the arteries in the head and other areas of the body.

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