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Image-guided minimally invasive percutaneous techniques for thoracic interventions allow interventional radiologists to perform diagnostic and curative treatments for a variety of thoracic pathologies. Percutaneous thoracic interventions can include diagnostic biopsies; therapeutic and diagnostic fluid drainage for pleural, mediastinal, and pericardial fluid collections, hemoptysis management through bronchial artery embolization; and percutaneous management of pulmonary arteriovenous malformations. Percutaneous biopsies reduce morbidity while providing comparable diagnostic value to open biopsy and are indicated for both local and diffuse disease processes. Image-guided thoracic fluid drainage has lower rates of complications compared to blind drainage and serves as a diagnostic and therapeutic modality of management for fluid collections. Massive hemoptysis is managed percutaneously through bronchial artery embolization. Pulmonary arteriovenous malformations can be embolized to reduce risk of negative sequelae and rupture.

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  1. Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton, L8S 4K1, ON, Canada

    Lazar Milovanovic BASc, MD Candidate

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    Sriharsha Athreya

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Milovanovic, L. (2016). Thoracic Interventional Radiology. In: Athreya, S. (eds) Demystifying Interventional Radiology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17238-5_11

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