Complications of CT-guided lung biopsy with a non-coaxial semi-automated 18 gauge biopsy system: Frequency, severity and risk factors.

A multiple regression model was made including emphysema, lesion-to-pleura distance, number of procedural CT images, number of pleural passes, fissure puncture and needle-to-blood vessel angle as highly significant univariate regression variables, as well as lesion size and procedure time length as clinically relevant variables ( Table 5 ).

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