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).
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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