While also providing diagnostic information, another sub-specialized team within the Radiology Associates group is providing hands-on patient care.   Not only does this sub-specialized team of Vascular and Interventional Radiologists offer diagnoses and image interpretation, these radiologists are performing medical intervention and highly specialized treatments.

 

As far back as the 1970s, Radiology Associates was entering the vascular and interventional arena as technology advanced and minimally-invasive angiography became common. Leading RAM’s Interventional team into the 21st century are seven specialists whose combined experience is unsurpassed in the region. Offering far more than angiography and the more commonly known procedures such as angioplasty/stent-placements, venous access, image-guided biopsies and percutaneous management of biliary and g/u obstructions, the RAM team is now offering patients and referring physicians a host of new treatment options.
 

Many of these newer, minimally-invasive procedures are on the leading-edge of treatments for cancer. Interventional oncology procedures are becoming the standard of care in cancer treatment and play an integral role in increasing the patient’s quality of life.

Some of these specialty procedures include:
 

Chemoembolization is a method used to deliver chemotherapy medication directly to liver tumors -- either primary tumors that originated in the liver, or metastases that migrated to the liver from cancers at other sites. Even in cases where chemoembolization is not curative, this approach may relieve a patient's symptoms and prolong survival without negatively impacting quality of life.
 

Internal Radiation Therapies - also known as intra-arterial brachytherapy, this technique uses a radioactive isotope combined with millions of tiny spheres to shrink and kill both primary and metastatic liver cancers. For patients with unresectable tumors, this palliative procedure may extend lives from months to years and improve quality of life.
 

RF (Radiofrequency) Ablation of bone and soft-tissue cancers uses interventional procedures to locally destroy tumors by heating, freezing or chemically destroying the cancer cells. This type of treatment, called tumor ablation, is a relatively new technique that is showing promising results for treating cancer.
 

Spinal Compression Fracture Treatment –Balloon Kyphoplasty™ is a minimally invasive procedure that can reduce back pain, improve back function and quality of life, and restore vertebral body height and spinal alignment.
 

To learn more about Radiology Associates Vascular & Interventional Procedures 478-633-1244

T. Franklin Glass, MD; Todd Jones, MD; Mark Keenan, MD; Charles Kellum, MD; Richard Lennington, MD; Tom Oliver, MD; Artie Schwartz, MD