The first comprehensive, multi-specialty text on ultrasound guidance in interventional procedures, this book uses the authors extensive clinical experience to provide a full overview of modern interventional ultrasound. For all practitioners, whether new to the procedures or already using them, Interventional Ultrasound offers expert advice and solutions to commonly encountered questions and problems.

Special Features:

• Provides a complete approach to interventional ultrasound, beginning with essential basics on materials, equipment, setup requirements, informed consent issues, microbiologic aspects, and hygiene
• Covers specific, ultrasound-guided diagnostic and therapeutic interventions in the abdomen, thorax, urogenital tract, musculoskeletal system, thyroid and other sites, including indications, selection of materials and biopsy devices, preparation and detailed, hands-on techniques as well as management of complications
• Describes key recent advances, such as the use of ultrasound contrast agents in interventional procedures, adapting ultrasound transducers for endoscopic use in biopsies of the thorax and gastrointestinal tract, performing percutaneous biopsy aspiration and drainage with ultrasound, employing sonography in advanced ablative techniques and more
• Explores such cutting edge topics as symptom-oriented palliative care interventions, applications in critical care medicine and interventions in children
• Highlights, for the first time, the vital role of assisting personnel in interventional ultrasound procedures

Offering easy-to-follow instructions and nearly 600 high-quality illustrations, Interventional Ultrasound takes a practical, cookbook approach ideal for daily use in the hospital or clinic. It is an indispensable reference for interventional radiologists, gastroenterologists, internists, surgeons and other specialists who need to stay up-to-date on the newest technology and applications in this rapidly advancing field.

General Aspects of Interventional Ultrasound

۱ Interventional Ultrasound: Introduction and Historical Background
۲ Interventional Materials and Equipment
۳ Informed Consent
۴ Medications, Equipment, and Setup Requirements
۵ Pathology and Cytology
۶ Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology
۷ Infections and Diagnostic Microbiology
۸ Hygiene Management
۹ Contraindications, Complications, and Complication Management
۱۰ Assistance in Ultrasound Interventions
۱۱ Sedation in Interventions

Specific Ultrasound-Guided Procedures: Abdomen

۱۲ Indications for Diagnostic Interventions in the Abdomen and Thorax (Liver, Pancreas, Spleen, Kidneys, Lung, Other Sites)
۱۳ Diagnostic and Therapeutic Paracentesis of Free Abdominal Fluid
۱۴ Fine Needle Aspiration Biopsy and Core Needle Biopsy
۱۵ Abscess Drainage
۱۶ Percutaneous Sclerotherapy of Cysts
۱۷ Interventional Treatment of Echinococcosis
۱۸ Local Ablative Procedures Percutaneous Ethanol and Acetic Acid Injection
۱۹ Local Ablative Procedures for Lrver Tumors, Radiofrequency Ablation
۲۰ Percutaneous Transhepatic Cholangiodrainage
۲۱ Percutaneous Gastrostomy
۲۲ Interventional Endosonography
۲۳ Special Issues Regarding Interventions in the Spleen

Specific Ultrasound-Guided Procedures: Thorax

۲۴ Thoracic Interventions

Specific Ultrasound-Guided Procedures: Urogenital System

۲۵ Percutaneous Renal Biopsy
۲۶ Interventional Urology

Specific Ultrasound-Guided Procedures: Other Organ Systems

۲۷ Interventional Thyroid Ultrasound
۲۸ Musculoskeletal Interventions
۲۹ Neurologic Interventions, Ultrasound-Guided Regional Anesthesia
۳۰ Ultrasound-Guided Emergency and Vascular Interventions

Specific Ultrasound-Guided Procedures: Other Applications of Interventional Ultrasound

۳۱ Extravascular Use of Ultrasound Contrast Agents
۳۲ Volume Navigation.
۳۳ Palliative Interventions and the Role of Ultrasonography in Palliative Care