Authors: Jan L Gielen Arthur M De Schepper Reinoud Blom Pieter Van Dyck Jan M L Bosmans David H Creytens Jan Veryser Johan Somville Paul M Parizel
Publish Date: 2011/05/12
Volume: 41, Issue: 4, Pages: 447-458
Abstract
System 1 was used in all soft tissue lesions STL and osteolytic bone lesions OBL of patients who presented at our department for CTguided biopsy between January 2009 and June 2010 Accuracy and cost were compared to those of Bonopty® system 2 and Trucut system 3 proceduresThe efficacy of system 1 was 85 in STL and 89 in OBL The procedure was well tolerated and caused no complications System 3 had an efficacy of 84 in STL and OBL combined The efficacy of system 2 in OBL was 85 The cost of singleuse system 1 and system 2 was comparable the cost of system 3 and multiuse system 1 compared to singleuse system 1 was 25 and 7 respectivelyThe efficacy of system 1 in biopsy of STL and OBL was better than that of system 3 In OBL the efficacy of system 1 was better than that of system 2 In STL at hazardous locations and small OBL with a thin cortical shell system 1 offers the advantage of variable length and controlled loading In these cases singleuse system 1 was costeffective when compared to surgical biopsy The cost per procedure of multiuse system 1 was lower than of system 3
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