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Bhavin Jankharia
This 48-years old came with abnormal mediastinal soft tissue for a CT guided biopsy, suspected to have mediastinal fibrosis / IgG4 disease
The video below discusses the case, the approach, the way the biopsy was done followed by a discussion on perivascular / periaortic biopsies and a new paper on this subject published last week.
Don't miss my article titled "Lessions Learnt from The Translumbar Aortogram" that addresses why we should not fear vessels.
Lessons Learnt from The Translumbar Aortogram
Any image guided biopsy can cause two major complications. The first is bleeding, which can happen from within a vascular organ (liver, spleen, kidney) or when you injure or traverse a vessel (lung, liver, abdomen, head & neck, mediastinum). The second is a pneumothorax. Many radiologists balk at t…
