Interventional radiology integrates a set of procedures performed without the need for hospitalization (ambulatory), only with local anesthesia, and that usually uses ultrasound control (although it can also be performed with the use of an image intensifier or CT scan) to guide a needle to the site of the lesion by aspirating its contents, injecting drugs or even harvesting a small portion of tissues for biopsy.

 

It is thus possible with minimal discomfort or pain for the patient, aspirating calcifications from the rotator cuff (barbotage of calcifying tendinopathy), treating adhesive capsulites by capsular hydrodistension, infiltrating joints or adjacent tendon structures, treating by dry needling tendinopathies (patella, aquiliana or epicondylianas) or  plantar fasciitis.

 

Modern interventional radiology techniques allow a safe treatment and fast recovery of the patients suffering from the aforementioned pathologies:
  
BARBOTAGE / LAVAGE OF SHOULDER ROTATOR CUFF CALCIFICATIONS WITH ULTRASOUND GUIDED NEEDLE

ECHODISTENSION OF THE ARTICULAR CAPSULE IN ADHESIVE CAPSULITIS OF THE SHOULDER