More people die from lung cancer each year than any other form of cancer. Over 150,000 lives are lost to the disease each year in the U.S. alone [1]. Early detection is critical in reducing the mortality rate, and despite advances in imaging, biopsy remains the only definitive diagnostic tool. The most common lung biopsy approaches are percutaneous and transoral. Percutaneous biopsy punctures t...

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 complication...

The aim of this study was to compare accuracy of an image guided percutaneous core needle biopsy (PCNB), using ultrasound or computed tomography, to PCNB without image guidance in the diagnosis of palpable soft tissue tumours. One hundred forty patients with a suspected soft tissue sarcoma underwent a percutaneous core needle biopsy with or without image guidance. One hundred eleven patients ha...

A percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy is a common procedure in the practice of pulmonology. An air embolism is a rare but potentially fatal complication of a percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy. We report four cases of a cerebral air embolism that developed after a percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy. Early diagnosis and the rapid application of hyperbaric oxygen therapy is the m...

OBJECTIVES The aim of the study was to evaluate the clinical spectrum of the lung cancer in the Indian patients. METHODS All the patients above the age 60 years referred to the chest clinic of Apollo Hospitals, during the period 1989-2000 were evaluated for lung cancer with fibreoptic bronchoscopy, fluoroscopic guided transbronchial lung biopsy, transbronchial, needle aspiration and/or CT gui...

Received January 2007 Accepted July 2007 INTRODUCTION Percutaneous kidney biopsy is most frequently performed under the guidance of ultrasounography or computed tomography (CT).(1) In some patients, however, other options for kidney biopsy should be resorted to in order to obtain an adequate specimen. We hereby describe the technique of fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous needle biopsy of the kidne...

Computed tomography-guided percutaneous transthoracic fine-needle aspiration biopsy of lung lesions is a well known diagnostic technique. Nevertheless, it has some complications; such as pneumothorax, intraparenchymal hemorrhage and hemoptysis, which are not rare. Air embolism is one of the rare but potentially fetal complications of this procedure. Herein, we report the case of a 69-year-old m...

results in the first series, cellularity and blood levels were significantly lower in capillary-fnb compared with cfnb (p < 0.001 and p = 0.011, respectively). there was no significant difference between cfnb and vacfnb in cellularity and blood (p = 0.15 and p = 0.1, respectively). in the second series, cellularity was significantly higher in cfnb compared with vacfnb (p < 0.001) with no signif...