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Oct 13, 2023 | diagnosticimaging.com | Mina S. Makary |Rahul Mal

Interventional radiology (IR) is an exciting, evolving discipline, which offers minimally-invasive therapies that carry the benefits of decreased morbidity, mortality, and cost in comparison to its invasive, surgical counterparts.1 Despite these benefits and high clinical impact, under-awareness of IR remains prevalent along referring and primary care physicians (PCPs).2-4Improving IR under-awareness appears one-dimensional at first glance.

Mar 21, 2023 | clinicalimaging.org | John Domini |Vibhor Wadhwa |Mina S. Makary |Rahul Mal

Purpose To evaluate the peri-procedural and intermediate-term clinical outcomes of thermal ablation of primary and metastatic lung cancer through analysis of a 5-year institutional experience. Methods In this retrospective, IRB-approved study, 55 consecutive lung ablation interventions (33 cryoablation and 22 microwave ablations) performed at an academic medical center from 2017 to 2022 were evaluated.