Savitz M H
Department of Surgery, Good Samaritan Hospital, New York.
Int Surg. 1992 Jul-Sep;77(3):211-5.
A series of 227 needle procedures monitored by serial CT scans was performed by free-hand technique on 147 patients at two suburban hospitals over a 10 year period. Under local anesthesia, 75 suspected brain tumors were biopsied; 52 intracerebral hematomas were evacuated, and 28 cerebral abscesses were drained. There was one complication of postoperative hemorrhage.
