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Video: Interventional oncology: Overview and indications
Author(s)Chick Weisse, VMD, DACVS
Dr. Chick Weisse discusses using interventional radiology to administer chemotherapeutic drugs and other oncology treatments.
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Chick Weisse, DVM, DACVS, of New York's Animal Medical Center provides a practical overview of and indications for interventional radiology in veterinary patients.
Injecting chemotherapeutics directly into a tumor and then blocking its vascular supply is one of the procedures you can perform less invasively by using fluoroscopy and endoscopy.
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