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Nonvascular Emergencies

When to Call an Interventional Radiologist

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Nonvascular emergencies involving the abdomen are common and represent areas where interventional radiology (IR) can add value in patient care. Familiarity with the common emergency conditions which may require IR input related to intra-abdominal and visceral abscess drainage, biliary obstruction, urological obstruction, as well as large bowel obstruction stenting is essential given the radiologist may be the first physician to contact IR. Appreciation of the features of nonvascular procedure complications is also imperative. Clinicians will often contact radiologists with queries regarding tubes and catheters IRs have inserted; this chapter also serves to provide an overview to deal with such inquiries.

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  1. Division of Interventional Radiology, University Health Network, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Abdullah O. Alenezi, Neeral R. Patel, Arash Mir-Rahimi & Arash Jaberi

  2. Division of Interventional Radiology, Department of Medical Imaging, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Sebastian Mafeld

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  1. Department of Radiology, McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, Canada

    Michael N. Patlas

  2. NYU Langone Hospital - Long Island and the NYU Long Island School of Medicine, Mineola, NY, USA

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  3. Department of Medical, Surgical and Experimental Sciences, University of Medicine and Surgery, Sassari, Italy

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Alenezi, A.O., Patel, N.R., Mir-Rahimi, A., Jaberi, A., Mafeld, S. (2022). Nonvascular Emergencies. In: Patlas, M.N., Katz, D.S., Scaglione, M. (eds) Atlas of Emergency Imaging from Head-to-Toe. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92111-8_4

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