Special Issue "Interventional Radiology: Towards Personalized Medicine"

Dear Colleagues,

The precision medicine initiative is having a far-reaching impact on prevention and treatment strategies that take individual patient variability into account. Interventional radiology (IR), born as a specialty in which imaging guidance is employed as a tool for both diagnosis and therapy, is tailored to specific cases. In addition to the increasing role played by diagnostic imaging in precision medicine with radiomics, IR could assume a leading role in the transition toward precision medicine, particularly with regard to advances in image-guided biopsy techniques that enable the identification of the genomics and proteomics that drive tumor hyperproliferation, metastatic capabilities, and tumor angiogenesis mechanisms. This will help interventionalists to play a greater role in therapy selection; alter the need to use a specific drug and/or embolic material or device in the embolization procedure, both in emergency and elective settings; and promote the use of novel image-guided techniques that could increase the technical and clinical success of procedures, reducing the risk of complications.

This Special Issue aims to describe current developments in IR procedures that do not merely improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients, but promote IR as a specialty fully integrated with other disciplines, both clinical and surgical, and its role as a key tool in the decision-making process.

Dr. Fabio Corvino
Guest Editor

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• interventional radiology
• trauma management
• interventional radiology tailored to patients
• interventional oncology
• diagnostic and interventional radiology
• image-guided biopsy