[New devices for non-vascular interventional radiology]

Interventional Radiology (IVR) is a field of medicine, which has made diagnosis or treatment previously performed only by surgery possible percutaneously. For safe and successful IVR, good devices are necessary. Therefore, development of new devices is essential for the progress of IVR. Various kinds of new devices for non-vascular IVR are introduced, including new biopsy needles, AccuStick, Cope Gastrointestinal Suture, Rösch-Thurmond Fallopian Tube Catheterization Set, ESP Glove and others. Most of them are now commercially available in Japan. However, all of them cost much higher than they cost in the USA.