• J Vasc Interv Radiol · Oct 2016

    Drill-Assisted Biopsy of the Axial and Appendicular Skeleton: Safety, Technical Success, and Diagnostic Efficacy.

    • Adam N Wallace, Sebastian R McWilliams, Andrew Wallace, Randy O Chang, Devin Vaswani, Robert E Stone, Ari N Berlin, Kevin X Liu, Brian Gilcrease-Garcia, Thomas P Madaelil, Ramy A Shoela, Travis J Hillen, Jeremiah Long, and Jack W Jennings.
    • Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology, 510 S. Kingshighway Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63110. Electronic address: wallacea@mir.wustl.edu.
    • J Vasc Interv Radiol. 2016 Oct 1; 27 (10): 1618-22.

    AbstractThe purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety, technical success rate, and diagnostic efficacy of drill-assisted axial and appendicular bone biopsies. During a 3-y period, 703 drill-assisted biopsies were performed. The cohort included 54.2% men, with a mean age of 57.6 y ± 17.1. Median lesion volume was 10.9 mL (interquartile range, 3.4-30.2 mL). Lesions were lytic (31.7%), sclerotic (21.2%), mixed lytic and sclerotic (27.7%), or normal radiographic bone quality (19.3%). No complications were reported. The technical biopsy success rate was 99.9%. Crush artifact was present in 5.8% of specimens submitted for surgical pathologic examination, and 2.1% of specimens were inadequate for histologic evaluation. Copyright © 2016 SIR. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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