title: Echocardiography-guided pericardiocentesis with a needle attached to a probe.
abstract: Pericardiocentesis with a needle attached to a probe was performed under two-dimensional echocardiographic guidance in 9 patients with pericardial effusion after cardiac operations. The first 5 mm of the tip of a puncture needle for percutaneous transhepatic cholangiodrainage is scratched with a scalpel to give the tip high echo intensity. When the probe is placed on the skin, the direction of puncture at that probe angle appears automatically on the monitor.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Surgery, Osaka City University Medical School, Japan.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Suehiro
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hattori
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Shibata
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Sasaki
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Minamimura
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kinoshita
mesh_terms: D004322:Drainage / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004452:Echocardiography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004867:Equipment Design; D006801:Humans; D010490:Pericardial Effusion / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy*; D011677:Punctures / Q000295:instrumentation*