Image-Guided Percutaneous Spine Biopsy

• Main Author: Ortiz, A. Orlando (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Interventional radiology.; Pathology.; Surgery.; Medicine & Public Health.; Interventional Radiology.

This textbook covers key areas and reviews important principles and steps in the preparation for and the performance of spine biopsy. Image-guided percutaneous biopsy techniques and their application throughout the spinal axis are presented and discussed in detail. The advantages and disadvantages o...

Table of Contents:

• Patient selection/preparation
• Coagulation, Anti-coagulation and spine biopsy
• Sacral biopsy technique
• Lumbar spine biopsy techniques
• Thoracic spine biopsy techniques
• Cervical spine biopsy techniques
• Spine infection
• Spine infection mimics
• Post-op spine biopsy
• Paraspinal soft tissue biopsy
• Pathologic considerations in spine biopsy
• Open biopsy.