Lessons Learnt from The Translumbar Aortogram

Revisiting 35-years old memories to realize why puncturing a vessel is not the end of the word during biopsies.

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Lessons Learnt from The Translumbar Aortogram

Any image guided biopsy can cause two major complications. The first is bleeding, which can happen from within a vascular organ (liver, spleen, kidney) or when you injure or traverse a vessel (lung, liver, abdomen, head & neck, mediastinum). The second is a pneumothorax. Many radiologists balk at the idea of

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