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An Improved Method Using Television Monitoring and High-Dose Infusion Pyelography

Maj Jean K. Haddad, MC; Maj Richard L. Mani, MC

Arch Intern Med. 1967;119(2):157-160.

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In 1954 Kark and Muehrcke described a technique for percutaneous renal biopsy which involved the approximation of the kidney site by the transfer of bony landmarks to the patient's back from a preliminary intravenous pyelogram film and the insertion of the Franklin modification of the Vim-Silverman biopsy needle into the patient's flank to secure renal tissue.¹ This method has enjoyed wide acceptance and presently represents the procedure of choice in most institutions.

Unfortunately, even in experienced hands, there is a failure rate of 10% to 20% with this method because of the "blind" approach.^2,3 Furthermore, the complication rate is high and includes severe bleeding which may require transfusion or even nephrectomy^2,3 and the formation of arteriovenous fistulae at the biopsy site.⁴ Consequently, there is a reluctance to biopsy the kidney via the percutaneous route, and, at the Massachusetts General Hospital, this method has been abandoned in favor of open surgical . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
USA; USA, Frankfurt/Main, Germany

From the departments of medicine and radiology, US Army General Hospital, Frankfurt/Main, Germany. Maj Haddad is presently with the US Army Hospital, Fort Huachuca, Ariz. Maj Mani is presently with the University of California Medical Center, San Francisco.

Footnotes
Received for publication Aug 11, 1966; accepted Oct. 28.

Reprint requests to the Chief of Medicine, US Army Hospital, Fort Huachuca, Ariz (Maj Haddad).

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