Complications of CT-Guidance Fine Needle Biopsy in Intra-Thoracic Masses

Background/Objective: CT scan guided fine needle biopsy of the chest lesions is an increasingly popular technique, but may have complications of which pneumothorax is the most common. The purpose of this study was to observe the complications of needle biopsy of chest lesions guided by CT scan among the studied patients. "nPatients and Methods: This is a descriptive epidemiologic study. All patients who were referred to Imam Khomeini Hospital, Ahwaz from 2005 to 2007 as an indication for chest lesion biopsy were studied. Snapshot files on lung CT scan regarding the lesion size and depth measurements and the biopsy samples obtained were sent to pathology. After the biopsy, the patients' CT scan was to act as the presence or absence of symptoms, proper action was made of "nResults: Among 102 patients studied, 85 patients (83.4%) were uncomplicated, but eight patients (7.9%) suffered from pneumothorax. In this study, there was no correlation found between the size of the lesion and the severity of complications, but between the location of the lesion and the complications caused there was statistically significant difference. "nConclusion: The needle biopsy guided by CT scan is a suitable diagnostic method due to low complications in many cases.