Predictors of Technical Success and Rate of Complications of Image-Guided Percutaneous Transthoracic Lung Needle Biopsy of Pulmonary Tumors

• Stephan Otto,

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Birger Mensel,

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Nele Friedrich,

  Affiliation Institute of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Sophia Schäfer,

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Christoph Mahlke,

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Wolfram von Bernstorff,

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, Division of General, Visceral, Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Karen Bock,

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Norbert Hosten,

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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• Jens-Peter Kühn

  * E-mail: kuehn@uni-greifswald.de

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Medicine Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany

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