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Can someone please walk me through how they perform needle biopsies during kyphoplasty? I use the stryker kits. There is a lot of rep turnover unfortunately and I often don't have coverage. My current rep is good but literally just finished training a month ago. Once in the vertebral body, I put the bone biopsy needle in though the access cannula and aspirate with the supplied syringe, but most of the time that yields a small aspiration of blood at best, usually just nothing. Are they expecting me to be sucking up bone fragments with that thing? Sometimes I will get bone fragments with the drill, but this is also usually minimal since the suspected pathologic fractures are usually very soft.
Also, assuming I do get a sample, what do you put on the lab order? Cell count, immunohistology panel? I am sending this to the lab at the most clueless hospital in the state, so I must be very specific.
Thanks so much!
Also, assuming I do get a sample, what do you put on the lab order? Cell count, immunohistology panel? I am sending this to the lab at the most clueless hospital in the state, so I must be very specific.
Thanks so much!