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Chest, Vol 104, 1003-1005, Copyright © 1993 by American College of Chest Physicians

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Ultrasonographic detection and guided biopsy of thoracic osteolysis

B Vogel
Klinik fuer Pneumologie, Krankenhaus Heidehaus, Hannover, Germany.

Eighty-six osteolytic lesions of the rib cage were examined by means of conventional radiography and ultrasonography. The ultrasonographic criteria of osteolysis are described. Only 1 rib metastasis was missed by ultrasonography while 13 lesions were not detected by x-ray film. Of 63 ultrasonographically guided biopsies, 62 resulted in the final diagnosis; complications were not observed. The results recommend ultrasonographic examination combined with guided biopsy as the first diagnostic step, if a metastasis of the rib cage is suspected after physical examination or after a pathologic bone scan.




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