Scans & Procedures
Please see our selection of scans & procedures and use the ‘Services’ menu links below.
Interventional Radiology ('Pinhole' Surgery)
- Embolisations including:
- Pelvic vein embolisation (treatment for pelvic venous congestion and varicose veins) – male and female
- Uterine artery embolisation (treatment for fibroids)
- Gatrointestinal and other sources of haemorrhage
- Postpartum & postoperative gynaecological haemorrhage
- Testicular vein embolisation
- Insertion of venous access devices
- Portacaths
- Groshong catheters
- Hickman lines
- PICC lines
- Non-tunnelled catheters
Drainages and Biopsies (Ultrasound & CT-Guided)
- Chest (Pleural or Pericardial effusions)
- Abdominal Ascites
- PleurX pleural and peritoneal implanted catheters
- Denver pleuroperitoneal & peritoneovenous shunts
- Biopsies
- Transjugular/Plugged
Head and Neck
- Digital Subtraction Sialography
- Endoluminal stone extraction from salivary duct under imaging control
- Digital subtraction dacrocystography & nasolacrinal duct stent insertion
- Dilatation/stenting of nasolacrimal duct under imaging control
- Pituitary & cavernous sinus venous sampling
Thorax
- Insertion of tracheal/bronchial metallic stent under imaging control
- Insertion of oesophageal metallic stent under imaging control
- Mediastinal biopsy & superior vena cava stenting
Gastrointestinal
- Percutaneous gastrostomy
- Percutaneous gastrojejunostomy
- Percutaneous jejunostomy
Liver
- Percutaneous insertion of plastic biliary endoprosthesis
- Percutaneous insertion of metallic biliary endoprosthesis
- Biliary drainage with occluded stent in place
- Percutaneous cholecystostomy
- Selective interstitial radiation therapy (SIRT)
- Selective targeted & bland hepatic chemoembolisation
Urology
- Renal and adrenal vein sampling
- Percutaneous nephrostomy & ureteric stent insertion
- Ureteric stent removal
Neuroradiology
- Diagnositic and theraputic lumbar punctures
- Creation of a healing blood patch
- Spinal nerve root blocks
- Discograms
- Spinal biopsies
- Vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty
Other
- Insertion/removal of vena cava filter
- Insertion of localisation wire into lesion under imaging control eg breast, lung
- Retrieval of foreign body under X-ray guidance
- Occlusion of fistula under imaging control
- Liver Ablation (radiofrequency, microwave)
- Duodenal stent insertion
- Colonic stent insertion
- Hystersalpingography & Fallopian tuboplasty