Fluoroscopy and Fluoroscopic Imaging

This Editorial Guide is used for Education Purposes Only. It is used in the Authoring Courses and Certifications. It is based on the January 2026 Editorial Guide.

Simple fluoroscopy

Simple fluoroscopy is real time imaging (usually on TV monitors/image intensifiers) of a body part or system. Only rarely is it an imaging process alone (without some interventional procedure). Fluoroscopy is most often used to guide or direct a primary procedure/purpose. The usual convention in clinical practice is to ignore the fluoroscopic element and refer to a procedure entirely by the primary component, e.g., angiography. However, this is unacceptable in SNOMED CT, where the imaging component must be explicitly described.

• FSN: Fluoroscopy of X (procedure)

• PT: Fluoroscopy of X

• SYN: Fluoroscopy - X

  • For example,

    • 169005008 | Fluoroscopy of esophagus (procedure)

      • FSN: Fluoroscopy of esophagus (procedure)

Fluoroscopic X is not necessarily interpreted as X using fluoroscopic guidance (procedure). When modeling a procedure using fluoroscopic guidance, the use of fluoroscopic x in the FSN is not sufficient; the FSN must explicitly state using fluoroscopic guidance if that is the intent.

The following naming pattern can be used for direct observation:

• FSN: X using fluoroscopic guidance (procedure)

• PT: Fluoroscopy guided X

• SYN: X using fluoroscopic guidance

  • For example,

Such procedures are subtypes of Fluoroscopy (procedure). See also .

Angiography and angiogram , as terms on their own, refer to visualization of a blood vessel or vascular structure not specified as an artery or a vein and could refer to either or both. So for clarity, a blood vessel site (X) and the phrase with contrast must be included in the concept description.

• FSN: Fluoroscopic angiography of X with contrast (procedure)

• PT: Fluoroscopic angiography of X with contrast

• SYN: Fluoroscopic angiogram of X with contrast

• FSN: Fluoroscopic angiography of X artery with contrast (procedure)

• PT: Fluoroscopic angiography of X artery with contrast

• SYN: Fluoroscopic arteriography of X with contrast

• SYN: Fluoroscopic arteriogram of X with contrast

• FSN: Fluoroscopic venography of X with contrast (procedure)

• PT: Fluoroscopic venography of X with contrast

• SYN: Fluoroscopic venogram of X with contrast

  • For example,

• FSN: Fluoroscopic arthrography of X (procedure)

• PT: Fluoroscopic arthrography of X

• SYN: Fluoroscopic arthrogram of X

  • For example,