In all, 164 additional diagnostic tests and procedures were performed in the 80 patients with indeterminate or clinically significant incidental findings, including 1 patient who suffered empyema and abdominal abscesses as a complication of transthoracic biopsy. In an observational study, Kim and colleagu...
The decision regarding whether to occlude the duct in these patients should be based on the pulmonary response to vasoreactivity testing (i.e., inhaled nitric oxide) or lung biopsy [24]. procedure are high, controversy exists. Interventional occluder insertion may not be rec- ommended for all...
Clinical Data Age, yr (min-max) Sex, male (%) Pathologic diagnosis, n (%) NSCLC Adenocarcinoma Squamous cell carcinoma SCLC Other type of lung malignancy Malignancy Negative for malignancy Methods for pathologic diagnosis PCNA Bronchoscopy Transbronchial lung biopsy Surgical operation CaEnBceUrsS2-T02...
Novel diagnostic applications of 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT include guiding biopsy to improve sampling accuracy, and guiding surgery and radiotherapy. In addition to facilitating the management of metastatic castrate resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC), 68Ga-PSMA can select patients who may benefit from targeted ...
Therefore, both the lack of biopsy-proven evidence of tumoral invasion (contrary to what Pauleit et al. have proven in gliomas [17]) and the potential high risk of radiation after-effects require further investigation before clinical utilization of this type of delineation method for SBPGLs. ...