Mediastinal tumors: biopsy under US guidance.
- 1 August 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) in Radiology
- Vol. 172 (2), 473-476
- https://doi.org/10.1148/radiology.172.2.2664870
Abstract
Percutaneous biopsies of mediastinal tumors were successfully performed under sonographic guidance in 14 of 21 patients. In 10 of 11 malignant lesions, malignancy was determined by means of cytologic and histologic examination of the specimens obtained. A histologic diagnosis was reached in seven patients with malignant mediastinal tumors, including all four cases of Hodgkin lymphoma. Mediastinal biopsy under sonographic guidance is a technically simple, rapid, and accurate procedure, but its application is limited to tumors of the anterior mediastinum.This publication has 9 references indexed in Scilit:
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