The past decades have witnessed interventional radiology in China to go from a very initial clinical practice to an important medical player in modem medicine. Recently, a friendly collaboration has been successfully established between the Chinese Interventionai Radiology Sub-society and the Journal of Interventional Radiology. The Chinese Interventional Radiology Sub-society will take the full responsibility for the academic governance of the Journal of Interventional Radiology and the Journal of Interventional Radiology will formally become the sole interventional academic periodical of the Chinese Interventional Radiology Sub-society in China. This collaboration will surely make Chinese interventional radiology to initiate a new era, promote the further development of interventional radiology at home and enable the Journal of Interventional Radiology to step into the international medical circle.

We have to handle properly the complications of interventional therapy,usually including two catalogues.The first one consists of patient physical capacity(e.g.anaphylaxis),coexistence of complication with other kind of disease,drug factors,equipment factors and the accompanied effect with acknowledgement of disease during the treating cause.The second one usually can be considered as the responsibility of medical staff,installation,environment and technical factors.To summerize and retrospectively study of complications have important significance.Proper investigation of the causes may decrease the incidence of complication to the lowest limit.(J Intervent Radiol,2007,16:217-218)

During the latest 20 years,the crucial progress has been made in the field of treatment for Budd-Chiari syndrome(BCS)in China with therapeutic methods transferring from surgical to interventional and achieving successful rate of 96%. Our unique contribution to the BCS interventional therapy should have made ourselves proud for being as a superior world position on account of large number of cases,abundant therapeutic contents and consummate skills. What a pity is that our achievement was not appreciated by international colleagues because of only a few papers published in SCI journals. So that,Chinese scholars ought to have doing more necessarily through diligently learning English,doing long term follow-up and performing more basic researches and actively joining international academic exchanges,let our good experiences of treatment for BCS be introduced to the world-wide.

Objective Through reviewing the comments about 2009's "World Conference on Interventional Oncology" to find out the current development trends of interventional therapy for neoplasms.Methods By statistically analyzing the texts of general assembly speech and classifying the articles according to their contents,the new trends in interventional therapy were expressed in digital form.Results TACE-based tumor treatment is no longer a hot topic.Many kinds of physical therapy,such as radiofrequency and other like devices,have been employed widely and frequently,and multi-channel treatment pattern has been formed.Conclusion It is necessary for interventional physicians to change the usual single therapeutic way for tumor treatment.The multi-channel alliance treatment has become the best option.

In classification of certain diseases,the following contents should be strictly referred to:The correct definition of the disease,the correlative pathology and anatomy,benefitial for choice of examination method,guideline of the therapy plan,simple and easy to remember,following the rules of historical classification and considering the former history. It is reasonable to define hepatic vein thrombosis as a classical Budd-Chiari syndrome(BCS)and also to acknowledge the obstructive lesion that occurs in the hepatic portion of the inferior vena cava(IVC)as a BCS; for affecting the blood outflow from hepatic vein and causing obstructive pathology. The pathological changes are nearly the same in these two kinds of BCS,but with absolutely different features,therapeutic measure and prognosis according to different sites of the lesions;coinciding with the definition of different types of the same disease. Furthermore,the different features in epidemiologic aspect should also be taken in account and the incidences of different types of BCS in west countries and developing countries. Recently BCS in China is mainly treated by interventional techniques and almost taken the place of surgical operation with many improvements yearly.Finally,the changes of treatment programme raised in China should also be considered in classification.(J Intervent Radio1,2007,16:75-78)

Radiofrequency ablation is an effective treatment for malignant tumors. With the development of imaging technique, it has been widely used in treating different kinds of malignant tumors, such as liver cancer, lung cancer, kidney carcinoma, etc. Radiofrequency ablation has a lot of advantages. As a minimally-invasive, safe and effective treatment with less sufferings and fewer complications, this technique has attracted more and more attention of the experts both at home and abroad.

The thalamic reticular nucleus (RT) is a sheet-like nucleus which surrounds the anterolateral aspect of the dorsal thalamus. In this study, we present data on the connections of the dorsocaudal portion of the RT in hamsters using anterograde, retrograde and transneuroual fiber tracing techniques. After injection of one eye with a mixture of ~3H-proline and ~3H-fucose (2 animals; 10 and 15 days survival time), transneuronal label was located in the dorsocaudal portion of the RT (dc RT) on both sides of the thalamus.After separate injection of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the thalamic lateral posterior nucleus (LP), dorsal and ventral nuclei of the lateral geniculate body (LGd, LGv) (8 animals, one day survival time), HRP labelled neurons wereobserved in the dorsal, middle and ventral area of the ipsilateral dc RT respectively.A small iontophoretic injection of a mixture of ~3H-proline and ~3H-leucine was made into different sites of area 17 in each of 3 hamsters (one day survival time),in each case an elongated patch of label was located in nearly the entire rostrocaudal extent of the ipsilateral dc RT. A caudal Injection in area 17 resulted in labelling the dorsal area while a progressively more rostral injection resulted in labelling a more ventral area of the dc RT.Thus, the dorsocaudal portion of the RT can be defined as the visual portion of the nucleus because it has connections with many of the known visual centres, namely, the visual cortex, LP, LGd, LGv Furthermore, because of the topographic connection with area 17 and the visual thalamic nuclei, the notion that the dc RT as a nucleus which is capable of processing specific and localised visual information. should be considered.

Resolution of the complications after liver transplantation is one of the important factors related to prognosis. Hepatic artery thombosis (HAT) after liver transplantation can lead directly to trans- planted liver undergone necrosis, biloma formation and liver functional exhaustion. The early diagnosis with Color Doppler which should be the first method of choice, CTA, MRA and angiography could lead to exact demonstration, and proper treatment can result in better prognosis. The microinvasive techniques such as local thrombolysis, balloon dilatation and stent placement are safe and effective for treatment of hepatic artery thombosis. The vascular reconstruction and oxygen hyperbaric are effective therapeutic methods. Repeat liver transplantation is still the last important choice for survival.

When reading or writing a medical paper involving clinical practice or fundamental research, it is necessary to read or review other correlative ones published in specially journals. Medical papers are always the fastest and most authorized way of reporting the latest achievements ,innovation and discoveries in medicine. However, viewpoints expressed by different authors and different periodicals varied considerably, sometimes were similar, sometimes were contradicted and even poles apart in one subject. It is worthwhile to think about facing with different conclusions, as how to make one’s papers choice. In this article, we took the example for analysis of medical papers about "The complication of post hepatic transplantation: splenic artery steals syndrome" written by different authors and talking about how to treat medical papers properly.

Biliary tract complications occurred after liver transplantation have been the well-known causes of the substantial morbidity and mortality. It has been widely accepted that biliary drainage, balloon dilation and stent placement are useful interventional techniques for the treatment of biliary tract complications. Biliary tract complications are more likely to be complex and to have multiple causes. For the interventional radiologists, a further understanding of the mechanism, pathology, classification and diagnosis of the biliary complications is very helpful in reasonably working out the appropriate therapeutic strategy in order to improve the clinical success rate of liver transplantation.