摘要
Interventional radiology,which originated within diagnostic radiology,is a newly developed medical field of minimally invasive endovascular therapy.Dr.Charles T.Dotter,who is widely regarded as the father of interventional radiology(1),successfully treated an82-year-old woman with lower extremity artery stenosis by dilatation using a guidewire and coaxial Teflon catheters,and published the case report in Circulation in 1964(2).In 1967,Dr.Alexander R.Margulis named this type of therapy as'interventional diagnostic radiology'(3).In the same year.
