Percutaneous CT-Guided Skull Biopsy: Feasibility, Safety, and Diagnostic Yield.

Anderanik Tomasian Travis J Hillen Jack W Jennings

Published in: AJNR. American journal of neuroradiology (2019)

The results of this retrospective initial study suggest that percutaneous CT-guided skull biopsy is feasible with an excellent safety profile, affords a high diagnostic yield for histologic characterization, and may obviate more invasive open skull biopsies.

Keyphrases

ultrasound guided
fine needle aspiration
minimally invasive
image quality
dual energy
computed tomography
contrast enhanced
positron emission tomography
magnetic resonance imaging
radiofrequency ablation
cross sectional
magnetic resonance