Lu Jian-Xiang, Chen Long-Hua
CT Diagnostic Centre, Taiping People's Hospital, Dongguan 523900, China.
Di Yi Jun Yi Da Xue Xue Bao. 2002 Mar;22(3):234-5.
To evaluate the application of CT-guided puncture biopsy for diagnoses of tumorschest.
Twenty-two patients with thoracic tumors that were not pathologically identified received CT-guided puncture biopsy for histological and cytological examination.
All biopsy procedures were successfully completed and 18 cases were identified as having malignant tumors by histological examinations, while 5 identified by cytological examinations, and definite pathological diagnoses were established in 19 cases. Pneumatothorax occurred in 2 cases and bloody sputum developed in 1 case.
CT-guided puncture biopsy may provide better biopsy samples and pathological supplemented by cytological examinations improve the accuracy of diagnoses.
