Percutaneous transcaval tumour biopsy using a 'road-map' technique.
The 'road-map' facility available on some of the commercially available digital subtraction angiography units is usually used to aid in the selective catheterization of a vessel during arteriography. We describe its use in the percutaneous transcaval biopsy of tumour within the inferior vena cava (IVC).
Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, Hammersmith Hospital, London.
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D000368:Aged; D015901:Angiography, Digital Subtraction / Q000379:methods*; D002406:Catheterization, Peripheral; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008223:Lymphoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D014682:Vena Cava, Inferior / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology