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Evaluation of Sonographically Guided Percutaneous Core Biopsy of Renal Masses

¹ All authors: Department of Radiology, University of Michigan Medical Center, 1500 E. Medical Center Dr., Taubman Center 2910R, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-9723.

View larger version (128K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1A. —71-year-old woman with renal cell carcinoma. Biopsy was performed for tissue diagnosis before hospice care placement. Contrast-enhanced CT scan shows complex right renal mass with large necrotic component.

View larger version (163K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1B. —71-year-old woman with renal cell carcinoma. Biopsy was performed for tissue diagnosis before hospice care placement. Transverse sonogram shows both solid (arrows) and necrotic components of mass.

View larger version (147K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1C. —71-year-old woman with renal cell carcinoma. Biopsy was performed for tissue diagnosis before hospice care placement. Transverse sonogram shows 15-cm, 18-gauge needle (arrows) sampling solid portion of mass.

View larger version (108K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2A. —42-year-old woman with angiomyolipoma of right kidney. Biopsy was performed to exclude renal cell carcinoma. Contrast-enhanced CT scan shows atypical CT appearance of angiomyolipoma.

View larger version (143K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2B. —42-year-old woman with angiomyolipoma of right kidney. Biopsy was performed to exclude renal cell carcinoma. Longitudinal sonogram of right kidney shows homogenous hyperechoic mass (arrow) in upper pole.

View larger version (135K): [in a new window]   Fig. 2C. —42-year-old woman with angiomyolipoma of right kidney. Biopsy was performed to exclude renal cell carcinoma. Transverse sonogram shows path of biopsy needle (arrows), which is sampling mass.

View larger version (130K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3A. —47-year-old man with necrotizing pyelonephritis after liver transplantation. Biopsy was performed to exclude lymphoma. Unenhanced CT scan shows infiltrating mass in left kidney.

View larger version (155K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3B. —47-year-old man with necrotizing pyelonephritis after liver transplantation. Biopsy was performed to exclude lymphoma. Sonogram of left kidney shows several small hypoechoic masses consistent with abscesses.

View larger version (160K): [in a new window]   Fig. 3C. —47-year-old man with necrotizing pyelonephritis after liver transplantation. Biopsy was performed to exclude lymphoma. Sonogram shows path of biopsy needle (arrow) avoiding hypoechoic masses.

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