[Results of transthoracic lung biopsy with the Nordenström aspiration method and Rotex II needle].

Z Erkr Atmungsorgane

Lungenklinik des Instituts für Innere Medizin MMA, Lódź/Polen.

Published: February 1991

The results of transthoracic biopsy in 100 cases and of transthoracic punction in 42 cases were analysed. The material which was obtained by the two methods was on principle investigated cytologically. A comparison of the two methods is given. The rate of complications with both methods was approximately 10% pneumothorax rarely haemoptysis. The advantages and disadvantages of the methods are demonstrated.

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