Section for Interventional Radiology--sIRcro 10 years of existence and organised activities (2000-2010).

Shortly after the Roentgen's discovery (1895), X-rays were applied for depicting vascular system (Lindenthal and Haschek 1896). But it took rather long time before another brilliant idea (Seldinger 1953) for percutaneous puncture and catheterization of superficial artery was developed instead of these previously performed and the surgical arteriotomy. The percutaneous puncture enabled another idea to emerge, i.

Croatian Society of Radiology (1928-2008), the Croatian Medical Association - 80 years of existence and activity.

OFTEN AND IN VARIOUS CONNOTATIONS ONE CAN HEAR OR READ THE FOLLOWING SYNTAGMA: "Let's leave the past in the past - and turn to the future". Even more frequent and numerous are opposite opinions, e.g.