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Park, Kim, and Im: Implantation Metastasis After Percutaneous Transthoracic Fine Needle Biopsy of Lung Cancer: A Case Report
Case Report

Journal of the Korean Radiological Society 1998; 39(2): 321-323.

Published online: 15 March 2016

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3348/jkrs.1998.39.2.321

Implantation Metastasis After Percutaneous Transthoracic Fine Needle Biopsy of Lung Cancer: A Case Report

Seong Ho Park, Hyae Young Kim, Jung Gi Im

Department of Radiology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, and Institute of Radiation Medicine, Korea.

Copyright © The Korean Radiological Society

Abstract

Percutaneous transthoracic fine needle aspiration(PCNA) and biopsy(PCNB) are well-accepted methods for thediagnosis of various intrathoracic lesions. Implantation of cancer cells along the needle tract is one of therarest complications of these techniques, but was found along the needle tract in a patient who underwent PCNB forlung cancer.

Keywords: Lung, biopsy, Biopsies, complications, Lung neoplasms

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