The yield of immediate post lung biopsy CT in predicting iatrogenic pneumothorax

The yield of immediate post lung biopsy CT in predicting iatrogenic pneumothorax

Abstract Background The most prevalent complication of percutaneous lung biopsy is pneumothorax (PNX). A routine immediate post-procedure CT scan (ICT) to spot PNX is done in many centers. However, the diagnostic yield of this practice has not been studied broadly. We sought to evaluate whether an I...

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Main Authors: Rafael Y. Brzezinski, Ifat Vigiser, Irina Fomin, Lilach Israeli, Shani Shenhar-Tsarfaty, Amir Bar-Shai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2020-04-01
Series:BMC Pulmonary Medicine
Subjects:
Biopsy
Complications
Computed tomography
Lung cancer
Pneumothorax
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12890-020-1128-8

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