Abstract
Palliative care aims to optimize comfort and function when cure is not possible. Image-guided
interventions for palliative treatment of lung cancer is aimed at local control of
advanced disease in the affected lung, adjacent mediastinal structures, or distant
metastatic sites. These procedures include endovascular therapy for superior vena
cava syndrome, bronchial artery embolization for hemoptysis associated with lung cancer,
and ablation of osseous metastasis. Pathophysiology, clinical presentation, indications
of these palliative treatments, procedural techniques, complications, and possible
future interventions are discussed in this article.
Keywords
palliative treatment - superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome - hemoptysis - osseous metastasis
- interventional radiology
