TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gruber-Rouh, Tatjana
A1  - Thalhammer, Axel
A1  - Klingebiel, Thomas
A1  - Mohammed, Nour-Eldin Abdelrehim Nour-Eldin
A1  - Vogl, Thomas J.
A1  - Eichler, Katrin
A1  - Naguib, Nagy Naguib Naeem
A1  - Beeres, Martin
T1  - Computed tomography-guided biopsies in children : accuracy, efficiency and dose usage
T2  - The Italian journal of pediatrics
N2  - Background: Computed-tomography-guided interventions are attractive for tissue sampling of paediatric tumor lesions; however, it comes with exposure to ionizing radiation. The aim of this study was to analyse the radiation dose, accuracy and speed of CT-guided interventions in paediatric patient cohort.
Methods: We retrospectively reviewed CT-guided interventions over a 10 -year period in 65 children. The intervention site consisted of bones in 38, chest (lung) in 15 and abdomen (liver, lymph nodes) in 12 cases. Radiation dose and duration of the procedures were analysed. The statistical analysis was performed using dedicated statistical software (BiAS 8.3.6 software, Epsilon Verlag, North Hasted).
Results: All interventions were performed successfully. Mean target access path to lesion within the patients was 6.0 cm (min 3.5 cm, max 11.2 cm). Time duration to complete intervention was 25:15 min (min 17:03 min, max 43:00 min). The dose-length product (DLP) of intervention scan was 29.5 mGy · cm (min 6 mGy · cm, max 85 mGy · cm) with the lowest dose for biopsies in the region of the chest (p = 0.04).
Conclusions: With justified indications, CT-guided paediatric interventions are safe, effective and can be performed both, with short intervention times and low radiation exposure.
KW  - Biopsy
KW  - Children
KW  - CT-guidance
Y1  - 2017
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45266
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-452660
SN  - 1824-7288
SN  - 1720-8424
SN  - 0392-5161
N1  - © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated
VL  - 43
IS  - 1, Art. 4
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
PB  - BioMed Central
CY  - London
ER  -