1568 PERCUTANEOUS MUSCLE BIOPSY IN PEDIATRIC-AGE PATIENTS

Muscle Biopsy

Muscle biopsy has been used for a long time for diagnosis of muscular, nerurogenic and systemic disorders with muscle involvement, because only very few of these disorders show sufficient specific clinical features for definite diagnosis. Since the presence of difficulties in the screening of numerous genes, muscle biopsy could be a time and cost effective procedure for solving the diagnostic p...

Percutaneous Muscle Biopsy: History, Methods and Acceptability

Advances in histological, biochemical, physiological and molecular biological assays, as well as in microscopy and image analysis have allowed multiple analyses in muscle tissue (1-5). Muscle biopsy is invaluable in providing a definitive diagnosis of a wide range of myopathies (muscular dystrophies, glycogen storage diseases, inflammatory myopathies and congenital myopathies) and denervating d...

Percutaneous ultrasound-guided renal biopsy in children: The need for renal biopsy in pediatric patients with persistent asymptomatic microscopic hematuria.

BACKGROUND Percutaneous renal biopsy (PRB) is essential for the diagnosis, prognosis, and management of children with unknown kidney disease. In this study, the safety and efficacy of PRB is investigated, and also the common etiologies of childhood kidney disease, based on histological findings. In addition, we explored the role of PRBs in the diagnosis of children who presented with persistent...

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...

Safety of percutaneous renal biopsy as an outpatient procedure in pediatric patients.