The role of ultrasound-guided transthoracic Tru-Cut core biopsy in the diagnosis peripheral thorax lesion

Abstract Background The nature of opaque lesions such as effusions, atelectasis, masses, and consolidations can be clarified by sonography. This study investigated the sensitivity accuracy ultrasound-guided percutaneous core needle biopsy in different thoracic tumors (lung, pleural, chest wall, mediastinal). Results Sixty patients underwent transthoracic peripheral masses with a Tru-Cut big bore. Twenty were lung, seventeen pleura, ten mediastinum, eleven enlarged palpable lymph nodes, two wall. sensitivity, PPV, for detection pleura 100% all, LN 88.9, 100, 90.9%, respectively. overall diagnostic performance sonar-guided diagnosis was 97.78% 98.18% accuracy, PPV. Conclusion is convenient sensitive process obtaining samples under ultrasound guidance exact histological tumors. efficiency high, technique also used outpatients, which relatively simple. Trial registration NCT, NCT04741958 Registered 5 February 2021, retrospectively registered,