European Conference on Interventional Oncology

Abstract submission for #ECIO2025 is now open! Submit your abstract by January 9 to share your work at the world's biggest interventional oncology platform! Accepted abstract types include: ➡️ Scientific abstracts ➡️ FIRST@ECIO clinical trial abstracts ➡️ Educational abstracts ➡️ Case reports Learn more and submit here: https://t.ly/5eHX_ #interventionaloncology #interventionalradiology #IRad 

In recognition of Liver Cancer Awareness Month this October, the CIRSE Library is providing free access to lectures on liver cancer from the 2024 IO Foundation Course and #ECIO2024. These lectures offer a comprehensive overview of interventional oncology procedures for liver cancer and highlight their role within a multidisciplinary approach to cancer care. ➡️ library.cirse.org To watch, simply log in with your myCIRSE account. Make sure to share these lectures with your colleagues! #LiverCancerAwarenessMonth #InterventionalOncology #IRad

In honour of Breast Cancer Awareness Month in October, check out this session from #ECIO2024 in the CIRSE Library to highlight interventional oncology's role in treating this disease: "Breast cancer: new scenarios for an old disease" ➡️ https://t.ly/AllCM #CIRSElibrary #interventionaloncology #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth #IRad

#ECIOtakeover with Prof. Reto Bale #RadiofrequencyAblation featured on Austrian TV. Raising awareness of the treatments we offer is key for the future of interventional radiology.

#ECIOtakeover with Prof Reto Bale It was a pleasure sharing the work my team and I do with you this week. To learn more, join us in Innsbruck this December for the ESIR course on percutaneous tumour ablation! 👉 https://t.ly/VbU7A It will be a fantastic opportunity to gain hands-on experience with cutting-edge technology under the guidance of top experts in the field. You will also have the chance to explore the capabilities of modern 3D guidance devices and image fusion tools, along with a recorded case of stereotactic radiofrequency ablation and other interesting cases for group discussion. Arno Amann, Dimitris Filippiadis, Moritz Kummann, Martijn Meijerink, Bruno Odisio, Daniel Putzer, Luigi Solbiati, Marco Van Strijen, Bradford Wood, Marie Beermann, Lorant Szabo MD EBIR, CASCINATION, GE HealthCare, Interventional Systems, Medical Templates AG, Perfint Healthcare Pvt Ltd., Philips, Siemens Healthineers, Varian

#ECIOtakeover with Prof. Reto Bale A case from a colleague, Dr. Moritz Kummann. This 63-year-old patient had been treated with atypical resection of a singular colorectal liver metastasis in segment VIII in 2019. Local recurrences were treated with resection (09/2021), MWA (02/2022) and sRFA (07/2022).  In July 2024 the patient was presented to our institution with a large local recurrence of 5.5 x 2.5 cm medial to the ablation zone in segment IVa in close vicinity to the vena cava and the hepatic veins. Stereotactic radiofrequency ablation was performed, using 4 needles with needle retraction and 2 ablation zones per needle. Total ablation-time was 31 minutes. 2500 units of heparin were administered to prevent occlusion of the hepatic veins.   (The before and post ablation pictures are in the comments!)

#ECIOtakeover with Prof. Reto Bale This is one of our SRFA cases from yesterday with a patient who acquired two new hepatocellular carcinomas (Segment IVa/VIII measuring 3.1 cm and Segment II/III measuring 4.3 cm) following liver transplantation. Click here to view the full case, videos will play when you click on their images: https://lnkd.in/dYGctkB5

#ECIOtakeover with Prof. Reto Bale What are the links between SIPLab Innsbruck, the Hollywood Boulevard, and “Breaking Bad”? Find out here 👉 https://t.ly/Ypbhr Michael Vogele, MD, Peter Lukas

#ECIOtakeover with Prof. Reto Bale A case from Prof. Elke Gizewski: - 53 y old male patient with early recurrence of oral carcinoma - Radiation therapy was performed immediately after first resection - In spite of this, rapid progress of the recurrent tumour cervical with infiltration in vessel and muscle structures - Only chance left: very radical resection - This would include resection of the internal carotid artery, the external carotid artery will be used for reconstruction See the photos for details!

#ECIOtakeover with Prof. Reto Bale (PART 2) Interventional Oncology – Stereotaxy and Robotics (SIP) Check out the previous post for part 1! Subsequently, we used our new targeting devices for numerous 3D-navigated punctures in the head area: brachytherapy for ENT tumors (together with Prof. Peter Lukas, radiation therapy, and team) (Figure 4), brain tumor biopsy (together with Prof. Wilhelm Eisner), placement of foramen ovale electrodes in epilepsy patients (together with Prof. Martin Ortler), endoscopic ventriculocystostomy (together with Prof. Johannes Burtscher). To apply this technology and workflow for targeted, minimally invasive tumor and pain therapy "from head to toe," we founded the SIP Lab (SIP: Stereotaxy, Intervention, and Planning) in 1996 at the Radiology Department (together with the former chairman Prof. werner jaschke). With the 3D navigation system (StealthstationTM, Medtronic), our aiming devices, and patient fixation systems, we (together with Dr. Peter Kovacs, RT Thomas Lang, RT Martin Knoflach, B.Sc.) (Figure 5) supported various frameless stereotactic procedures across different departments (orthopedics, trauma surgery, maxillofacial surgery, neurology). However, the main focus of our team was on the development of new or improved minimally invasive percutaneous interventional radiological procedures for tumor and pain therapy. These will be exemplified in the upcoming posts. Our core medical team currently consists of 7 radiologists (Reto Bale, Peter Schullian, Daniel Putzer, Gernot Eberle, Moritz Kummann, Gregor Laimer, Yannick Scharll) and ten specially trained radiologic technologists. (Figure 6, From left to right: Florian Schanda, Reto Bale, Verena Götzl, Gernot Eberle, Moritz Kummann, Julia Mahlknecht, Gregor Laimer, Josef Walch, Daniel Putzer, Anna-Verena Gschwentner, Yannick Scharll, Peter Schullian. Not depicted: Roland Mahlknecht, Hannah Haidacher, Johanna Partl, Martina Weiler, Moritz Schuhmacher). Additionally, two PhD students (Stefano Fogarollo, Adela Lukes) are working on optimizing image fusion and automatic path planning for stereotactic radiofrequency ablation (SRFA) as part of an FWF project (DocFunds). #interventionalradiology #IRad