Computed-tomographic-guided minithoracotomy. A preliminary report of a new approach to open lung biopsy.
The authors describe a simple computed-tomographic method, using precise surface localization, to locate small subpleural nodules or pulmonary lesions. This permits a guided minithoracotomy for chest lesions which are not visible on plain radiographs or are considered inaccessible by percutaneous or transbronchoscopic biopsy.
D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000473:pathology*; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed