CT-Guided Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Renal Tumors Before Treatment with Percutaneous Ablation
Marta E. Heilbrun1,2,
Ronald J. Zagoria1,
A. Julian Garvin3,
M. Craig Hall4,
Kyle Krehbiel1,
Andrew Southwick5 and
Peter E. Clark4
1 Department of Radiology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, NC.
2 Present address: Department of Radiology, University of Utah Health Sciences
Center, 30 North 1900 East #1A071, Salt Lake City, UT 84132-2140.
3 Department of Pathology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, NC.
4 Department of Urology, Wake Forest University School of Medicine,
Winston-Salem, NC.
5 Division of Urology, University of Utah Hospital and Clinics, Salt Lake City,
UT.

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Fig. 1 84-year-old man with exophytic 3.8-cm solid mass in upper
pole of left kidney, prone position. Axial unenhanced CT image shows 19-gauge
outer needle is in place, and coaxial technique is used to obtain multiple
fine-needle aspiration samples using 22-gauge biopsy needles.
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