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Dr Vasileios Skiadas
Consultant Musculoskeletal Radiologist
Southampton MSK Imaging
Therapeutic interventions


Image guided barbotage
There are cases that calcium, a hard substance, is gathered within a tendon or adjacent to joints causing local inflammation and pain. In this cases an attempt to aspirate or brake the calcium in small pieces is made (barbotage) to reduce the volume of the calcific deposit and reduce the inflammation. This procedure can be combined with a steroid injection, if necessary.
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