Transcannular maxillary antral biopsy with Tru-Cut needle.
A Transcannular Tru-Cut needle maxillary antral biopsy technique, which has been devised as an out-patient procedure to speed up histological diagnosis in antral disease, is here described. A trial carried out with this technique shows that the histological diagnosis reached from such biopsy specimens compares favourably with that reached from specimens taken through an intranasal antrostomy.
D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008443:Maxillary Sinus / Q000473:pathology*; D008444:Maxillary Sinus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D010255:Paranasal Sinus Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*