Robotized Percutaneous 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...

percutaneous pleural biopsy

i have carried out 22 biopsies in 20 patients, in fifteen i used a vim _ silverman needle, and in the remainder a curetting type needle, in 12 cases (60%) the diagnosis that was made; in 3 cases, inadequate tissue, was obtained; in two cases a fibromuscular tissue, in one case a fatty tissue and in one case the specimen was of hepatic tissue. even with the small biopsy specimen obtained with th...

Percutaneous cartilage biopsy.

A needle is described for obtaining specimens of non weight-bearing hyaline cartilage from the lateral femoral condyle. The hyaline cartilage of the femur continues onto the lateral surface of the condyle as a 'lip' which lies deep to the capsule of the knee joint and is readily accessible for biopsy. The cylindrical needle is hollow with a sharpened cutting edge and is 5 mm. in diameter. Withi...

role of percutaneous liver biopsy