Department of Interventional Medicine

The Interventional Medicine Department, formerly Interventional Ultrasound Medicine, was founded in 2013 and renamed in 2021. It provides minimally invasive tumor diagnosis and treatment guided by ultrasound, CT and DSA. The team includes 3 chief physicians, 1 associate chief, 1 attending, 2 residents, 1 technician and 3 nurses; 7 staff have doctorates. It has specialty clinics for thyroid and breast nodules, liver tumors and uterine fibroids, 12 shared beds and 3 interventional operating rooms including an integrated DSA/CT/ultrasound room. Equipment includes 5 color ultrasound units, CT, DSA, microwave and radiofrequency ablation, cryoablation and radioactive-particle implantation. It treats thyroid, parathyroid, liver, lung, uterine, breast, renal, bone, soft-tissue and metastatic-node tumors and cystic lesions. In five years it published 28 SCI and 44 Chinese papers and trained nearly 50 visiting doctors.