Sameer Rehman, Director of Tumor Ablation Program at Valley Health System, Cardiothoracic and Interventional Radiologist at Desert Radiology, shared on LinkedIn:
“I am happy to share our new publication in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (JVIR) on ‘Synchronous Percutaneous Biopsy and Cryoablation for Suspicious Solitary Pulmonary Nodules’.
In a cohort of 102 inoperable patients who underwent combined core needle biopsy and cryoablation for enlarging/FDG avid solitary pulmonary nodule (1-2cm) in the setting of moderate/severe emphysema:
- cryoablation technical success was 100% (102 patients)
- the diagnostic biopsy yield was 87.3% (89 patients)
- malignancy was established in 96.6% (86 patients)
- within sub-set of biopsy proven NSCLC, the 3 year local tumor control was 91.2% and 3 year overall survival 90.8%
The synchronous biopsy and ablation for high risk solitary pulmonary nodules is a safe and effective, single session diagnostic and therapeutic approach with favorable pathologic yield as well as good local tumor control at an early stage.
Shout out to my first co-author Shreyas Naidu (medical student at University of Florida) for his hard work and dedication on this project for a long period of time.”
Title: Synchronous Percutaneous Biopsy and Cryoablation for Suspicious Solitary Pulmonary Nodules
Authors: Sameer Rehman, Shreyas Naidu, Syed Akbarullah, Joel Schein, Phil Ramis, Raja Mehdi, Robert Suh
Read the Full Article on Journal of Vascular and Interventional Radiology
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