2006-06-14 06:35:00 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Other - General Health Care
No, radiologists only operate "picturing" machines like Roentgen, MRI, CT and make diagnosis based on the pictures.
2006-06-14 06:37:38 · answer #1 · answered by swissnick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, recently I had a stereotactic biopsey of my breast and it was performed by a radiologist...who better than the actual reader of the films? He did a great job, very small scar.
2006-06-14 13:50:38 · answer #2 · answered by Anita B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes Radiologists do surgeries in fluoroscopy they us X-Rays in a
real time setting. They do what is considered special procedures but they don't do like major surgeries.
2006-06-14 14:23:22 · answer #3 · answered by rea4154 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Radiologists are not surgeons, but routinely assist surgeons with cancer treatments for implanting radioactive "seeds" into prostate cancer patients.
2006-06-14 13:39:37 · answer #4 · answered by yes_its_me 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes, in many cases, they do.
they can, if properly trained, deploy stents in many blood vessels, to open passages, or to occlude others. Some are used to reinforce huge defects that are known to burst over time resulting in very rapid bleeding.
These doctors are often referred to as interventional-radiologists.
They do other procedures as well, bolus dilation of colonic strictures/volvulus/intussuception, palliative stenting of bowl/esophagus....
2006-06-14 13:46:12 · answer #5 · answered by dockyortho 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO THEY DO NOT
2006-06-14 13:50:38 · answer #6 · answered by joeblow 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋