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Endovascular biopsy using a transjugular liver biopsy set and suction aspiration safely yielded sufficient tissue to accurately diagnose a rare inferior vena cava metastatic carcinosarcoma.
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Endovascular biopsy using suction aspiration is proposed as a safe and efficacious novel approach to obtain an accurate diagnosis of intravascular masses.
We present a case of an 81-year-old female diagnosed with metastatic carcinosarcoma from a primary peritoneal Müllerian malignancy after endovascular biopsy of a large mass within her left renal vein extending into the inferior vena cava (IVC) after workup for increasing back and abdominal pain over one and a half months. Biopsy of the mass was performed with digital subtraction angiography using a combination of transjugular liver biopsy set as well as suction aspiration. We propose that suction aspiration of an intravascular mass is a safe and efficacious procedure to obtain accurate diagnosis.
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Kagali et al. (2018) conducted a case report in Inferior vena cava mass (metastatic carcinosarcoma) (n=1). Endovascular biopsy via transjugular liver biopsy set and suction aspiration was evaluated on Histological diagnosis. Endovascular biopsy using a transjugular liver biopsy set and suction aspiration safely yielded sufficient tissue to accurately diagnose a rare inferior vena cava metastatic carcinosarcoma.
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