Percutaneous lung biopsy.

RAD Magazine CT - guided percutaneous lung biopsy

Percutaneous trephine biopsy of the lung.

Needle lung biopsy performed with a trephine cutting needle attached to a high speed pneumatic drill is a new technique which can be expected to yield a high quality lung specimen in 85 percent 90 percent of attempts. This technique is especially applicable to diffuse pulmonary disease. The most frequent complication is the development of pneumothorax (in up to 65 percent of biopsies) which if ...

The Chiba needle for percutaneous lung biopsy.

PERCUTANEOUS TRANSTHORACIC BIOPSY USING TRU-CUT NEEDLE

Biopsies of thoracic lesions guidance. 22 of the 1 12 lesions were mediastinal and 83 were pleuroparenchymal. A large-bore 14-gauge Tru-cut needle was used in all patients. Adequate specimens for histologic examination were obtained in 98%. The overall accuracy was 91 % with 9% false negative and no false positive diagnoses. Despite the large size of the needle, the total number of complic...

Percutaneous biopsy

Introduction Infective discitis is an inflammatory process involving the intervertebral disc space, often related to infection. It is a rare condition with an incidence of between 0.4 and 2.4 per 100,000 each year in the western world. There is a bimodal age distribution with the first peak in childhood and the second peak around the sixth decade. The lumbar spine is affected in up to 60% of ca...