Chinese multidisciplinary expert consensus: Guidelines on percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy

• Published in: Thoracic cancer Vol. 9; no. 11; pp. 1530 - 1543
• Main Authors: Guo, Zhi, Shi, Hong, Li, Wentao, Lin, Dongmei, Wang, Changli, Liu, Chen, Yuan, Min, Wu, Xia, Xiong, Bin, He, Xinhong, Duan, Feng, Han, Jianjun, Yang, Xueling, Yu, Haipeng, Si, Tongguo, Xu, Linfeng, Xing, Wenge, Jinhua, Huang, Wang, Yingjuan, Xie, Hui, Cui, Li, Gao, Wei, He, Dongfeng, Liu, Changfu, Liu, Zhou, Ma, Chunhua, Pan, Jie, Shao, Haibo, Tu, Qiang, Yong, Li, Xu, Yan, Weihao, Zhang, Qiang, Zou, Wang, Sen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Melbourne John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd 01.11.2018; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Biopsy; Biopsy, Needle - methods; China; Clinical Guideline; Clinical medicine; Clopidogrel; Consensus; Disease; Female; guideline; Guidelines as Topic; Humans; Image-Guided Biopsy - methods; Lung cancer; Male; Methods; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Patients; percutaneous biopsy; Surgery; transthoracic cancer; Ultrasonic imaging; China; percutaneous biopsy; transthoracic cancer; Consensus; guideline
• ISSN: 1759-7706; 1759-7714
• DOI: 10.1111/1759-7714.12849

Biopsy has been used to diagnose thoracic diseases for more than a century. Percutaneous needle biopsy plays a crucial role in the diagnosis, staging, and treatment planning for tumors in the lungs, thoracic wall, hilum, and mediastinum. With the continuous improvement in imaging techniques, the range of clinical applications for percutaneous needle biopsy is also expanding. It has become important to improve Chinese professionals’ and technicians’ understanding of percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy (PTNB) in order to standardize operating procedures and to strengthen perioperative management. However, there is currently no Chinese expert consensus that provides systematic standardization and guidance for PTNB in clinical practice. The Committee of Chinese Society of Interventional Oncology (CSIO) of the Chinese Anti‐Cancer Association (CACA) initiated a Chinese multidisciplinary expert consensus on PTNB. The consensus includes image‐guided methods, indications, contraindications, multidisciplinary team recommendations, biopsy procedures, daytime/outpatient biopsy, complications, pathological examination, and management of negative results.