Fluoroscopy and Fluoroscopic Imaging

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)

      • PT: Fluoroscopy of esophagus

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,