Interventional Real-Time Ultrasound.

This book is composed of seven chapters by 17 contributors. The emphasis of this text is equally on specific cardiac procedures, cholangiography, biliary drainage, pancreatography, and abscess drainage as well as on needle biopsy of mass lesions. All chapters are organized according to the indications, contraindications, clinical significance, and possible complications of each procedure described. Each instrument used in these procedures is meticulously illustrated in minute detail. The chapter on techniques of needle guidance and puncture includes many solutions to technical problems, such as how to locate the needle tip under US guidance. Through the use of animal research models, this section also explores the organ damage resulting from needle punctures with various tip configurations. All of the chapters on percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography, biliary drainage, gallbladder drainage, and percutaneous pancreatography are presented concisely and contain illustrations of each instrument used.