Ct Guided Kidney Biopsy Video. Directed at a lesion. During a ct guided biopsy a person rests in a ct scanner.
If your healthcare provider wants to sample a specific area of the kidney the biopsy may be guided by ultrasound fluoroscopy or computed tomography. If your healthcare provider wants to sample a specific area of the kidney the biopsy may be guided by ultrasound fluoroscopy or ct. A biopsy is a tissue sample that s examined under a microscope.
The most common complication of a kidney biopsy is blood in the urine.
Ct scanning can also be used for renal biopsy whenever ultrasound cannot identify or visualize the kidney or the needle biopsy. Biopsy is a procedure in which samples of tissue core or fluid aspiration are taken through a needle and sometimes under local anaesthetic. Bleeding that s serious enough to require a blood transfusion affects a very small percentage of people who have a kidney biopsy. Your kidneys are a pair of purplish brown organs.