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With more than 3000 members, the Chinese Society of Interventional Radiology (CSIR) is one of the world’s largest societies for interventional radiology (IR). Nevertheless, compared to other societies such as CIRSE and SIR, the CSIR is a relatively young society. In this article, the status of IR in China is described, which includes IR history, structure and patient management, personnel, fellowship, training, modalities, procedures, research, turf battle, and insightful visions for IR from Chinese interventional radiologists.
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The authors thank Dr. Ziv Haskal, Editor of CVIR, for his invitation and revision on this article.
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Gao-Jun Teng and Ke Xu contributed equally to this article.
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Teng, GJ., Xu, K., Ni, CF. et al. Interventional Radiology in China. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 31, 233–237 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-007-9266-4
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