CT-guided aspiration biopsy of infected aortic graft in a patient with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy - Saline injection to improve diagnostic yield -a case report

Authors
Golder, W Wolf, KJ
Citation
W. Golder et Kj. Wolf, CT-guided aspiration biopsy of infected aortic graft in a patient with hypertrophic osteoarthropathy - Saline injection to improve diagnostic yield -a case report, ACT RADIOL, 42(1), 2001, pp. 59-62
Citations number
9
Categorie Soggetti
Radiology ,Nuclear Medicine & Imaging
Journal title
ACTA RADIOLOGICA
ISSN journal
02841851 → ACNP
Volume
42
Issue
1
Year of publication
2001
Pages
59 - 62
Database
ISI
SICI code
0284-1851(200101)42:1<59:CABOIA>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Unilateral hypertrophic osteoarthropathy can be a diagnostic clue to chroni c infection of an aortic graft and aorto-enteric fistula. In a 62-year-old woman, non-invasive diagnostic procedures failed to prove the infection. CT -guided fine needle biopsy revealed the pathogens prompting re-intervention . The biopsy result was markedly improved by injecting physiologic saline i nto the perigraft tissue.