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Niksa Vlasic
May 14, 2019
Interventional Radiology
Dr. Niksa (Nick) Vlasic, M.D. is board certified in Diagnostic Radiology and Vascular and Interventional Radiology. He received his training at New York Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital and the Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
Dr. Vlasic is part of Upper Peninsula Imaging and is on the staff at: Bell Hospital, Marquette General Hospital, Newberry Hospital, Munising Hospital, Baraga County Memorial Hospital, Schoolcraft Hospital, and OSF St. Francis Hospital in Escanaba.
Dr. Vlasic has been treating chronic leg pain and varicose vein disease for over 14 years, and has extensive experience using minimally invasive techniques to provide complete vein evaluations and comprehensive therapy. His procedures are performed in the state-of-the-art Vascular and Interventional Suite at Bell Hospital using the most advanced techniques and equipment.
Dr. Vlasic also provides full Vascular and Interventional Radiology clinic services and consultations with a Pain Management Clinic and a comprehensive Peripheral Vascular Disease Clinic. The Pain Management Clinic includes Epidural Steroid Injections, Intra-articular Steroid Injections, Facet Injections, and Vertebroplasty. The Peripheral Vascular Disease Clinic includes the Vein Clinic, and also provides arterial angiography with percutaneous balloon angioplasty and stent placement.
Dr. Vlasic also offers a wide spectrum of minimally invasive image guided procedures including image guided biopsies, tube placements, and percutaneous catheter placements and drainage procedures.
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Services Offered:
IR /Angio suite:
- US guided vein laser ablation
- Ambulatory veins phlebectomies
- US guided varicose vein sclerotherapy
- Mediport placement
- PICC line placement
- Abscess Drainage
- Liver, Renal cyst sclerotherapy / ETOH ablation
- Seroma, lymphocele sclerotherapy
- Epidural Steroid injections ( cervical, thoracic, lumbar)
- Hip, Shoulder, Knee, SI joint injections
- Lung biopsy, chest tube placement
- Pleural and Peritoneal Pleurx catheter drainage
- Talc pleurodesis
Offers Consultations at SMH For:
- Uterine Artery Fibroid Embolization/Therapy
- Postpartum Bleeding Embolization
- Pelvic Congestion Ovarian Vein embolization
CT suite:
- CT guided biopsies ( lung, soft tissue, liver, bone)
- CT guided epidural steroid injections
- CT guided abscess drainage
Ultrasound:
- Breast biopsies, aspirations, Seroma drainage
- US guided liver, thyroid, lymph node, soft tissue biopsies (FNA and core bx)
- Thoracentesis
- Paracentesis
- Varicose vein sclerotherapy
- Breast needle localization with sentinel node lymphoscintigraphy
Mammography:
- Screening and Diagnostic mammograms with same the day biopsies
- Ductograms
Fluoroscopy:
- Myelograms ( cervical, thoracic, lumbar)
- All arthrograms for CT and MRI arthrography
- Lumbar punctures diagnostic and therapeutic
- All GI fluoroscopic studies
- Modified barium studies with speech therapy
- All arthrograms for pain management
- Fluoroscopic guided large joint steroid injections
