PEDIATRIC INTERVENTIONAL AND INVASIVE PROCEDURES

Purpose: With the rapid development of new instrumentation it is now possible to carry out interventional procedures on ever younger children and even on neonates. Ultrasound guided therapeutic interventional procedures may also be carried out in certain clinical circumstances where the alternative would be operative intervention e.g. the drainage of intra-abdominal abscesses or accumulated peritoneal fluid. In many cases this will result in a definitive cure.The most frequvent intervention is the parenchymal biopsy. Methods and Materials: During our fifteen years of experience we have undertaken 357 procedures…