You have full access to this article via your institution. To establish whether percutaneous ultrasound-guided renal biopsy can be carried out in the supine anterolateral position (SALP ...

The accuracy and reliability of percutaneous renal biopsy has been much debated. Tissue-based diagnostic assessment remains important, because although CT, ultrasonography and MRI can accurately ...

There are several types of kidney biopsy procedures. The most common is a percutaneous biopsy. For this procedure, doctors insert a biopsy needle through the skin and into the kidney. There are ...

PHILADELPHIA — Percutaneous kidney biopsy is a feasible and safe procedure when testing patients with small kidneys, according to the results of a study presented at ASN Kidney Week. Research ...

The two principle variables of renal mass biopsy are image-guidance ... tissue through which the needle passes during percutaneous biopsy, theoretically decreasing the risk of tract seeding.

Pre-treatment Percutaneous Biopsy of Small Renal Masses Allison R. Polland, MD, and Jaime Landman, MD | February 1, 2013 ...

A kidney biopsy may be taken in one of two ways: Percutaneous biopsy: a needle placed through the skin (percutaneously) that lies over the kidney and guided to the right place in the kidney ...

How is a kidney biopsy performed? There are four techniques for renal biopsy: percutaneous needle open surgical laparoscopic, and transjugular biopsy. The word percutaneous means “through the skin”.

In Akai and team's analysis of 55 patients presumptively diagnosed with DN, percutaneous renal biopsy carried out in all patients showed that just 30 (54.5%) individuals were histologically ...

2.2.1 Percutaneous cryotherapy for renal cancer is carried out with the patient under general anaesthesia, or local anaesthesia and sedation. A biopsy of the tumour may be carried out. With suitable ...

A kidney biopsy is a procedure to take a small piece of tissue from the kidney. A specialist doctor (pathologist) looks at it under a microscope and can tell if you have kidney cancer and which type ...