Do radiologists operate on people, and if they do what type of surgeries do they perform?
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No, radiologists only operate "picturing" machines like Roentgen, MRI, CT and make diagnosis based on the pictures.
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Radiologists are not surgeons, but routinely assist surgeons with cancer treatments for implanting radioactive "seeds" into prostate cancer patients.
yes, in many cases, they do.
they can, if properly trained, deploy stents in many blood vessels, to open passages, or to occlude others. Some are used to reinforce huge defects that are known to burst over time resulting in very rapid bleeding.
These doctors are often referred to as interventional-radiologists.
They do other procedures as well, bolus dilation of colonic strictures/volvulus/intussucep. palliative stenting of bowl/esophagus..
Yes, recently I had a stereotactic biopsey of my breast and it was performed by a radiologist.who better than the actual reader of the films? He did a great job, very small scar.
NO THEY DO NOT
Yes Radiologists do surgeries in fluoroscopy they us X-Rays in a
real time setting. They do what is considered special procedures but they don't do like major surgeries.
Source(s):
diaxray.com/fluoroscopy.html
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