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Previous Case:
Case 138: Transhepatic Portal Node Biopsy
A transhepatic route is a simple way to approach portal, pancreatic and peritoneal lesions
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Current Cases:
These are 3 different patients. The first is 61-years old post radiotherapy to the neck for buccal cancer, the 2nd - post epidural injection in the lumbar spine and the 3rd with lower dorsal backache and fever.
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What will you do next? How do you know what kind of infection this is? Tuberculosis? Pyogenic? Fungal?
The only way is to biopsy.
The video describes the 3 cases and why and how to biopsy patients with suspected infectious spondylitis.