Interventional radiology in pediatrics

: A survey of therapeutic possibilities offered by pediatric interventional radiology is given. Authors emphasize that the percutaneous interventional radiology procedures are performed either as an adjuvant treatment facilitating other (surgical) methods or as definite therapy replacing traditional treatment modalities. It is also stressed that interventional procedures are cost effective and relative less expensive than surgery, and they are not so cumbersome to the patients and can shorten the time for hospitalization significantly. Authors present 5 illustrative cases including locoregional chemotherapy and embolotherapy of liver tumors, transcatheter embolization for a varicocele, an arteriovenous malformation and an aneurysmal bone cyst.