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Electromagnetic Navigation to Aid Radiofrequency Ablation and Biopsy of Lung Tumors

^a Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
^b Department of Radiology, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts
^c Instituto de Ensino e Pesquisa Albert Einstein, São Paulo, Brazil

Accepted for publication June 1, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Fernando, 88 E Newton St, B-402, Robinson Bldg, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA 02118 (Email: hiran.fernando{at}bmc.org).

Presented at the Poster Session of the Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of The Society of Thoracic Surgeons, San Francisco, CA, Jan 26–28, 2009.

Purpose: We evaluated an electromagnetic (EM) navigation system (Veran Medical Technologies Inc, St. Louis, MO) to determine its potential to reduce the number of skin punctures and instrument adjustments during computed tomographic-guided percutaneous ablation and biopsy of lung nodules.

Description: Ten patients undergoing lung percutaneous ablation were prospectively enrolled. The mean age was 70 years. Positioning of the needle device was verified with computed tomographic fluoroscopy prior to the execution of any biopsy or ablation. Each EM navigation-guided procedure was defined as an EM-intervention.

Evaluation: Nineteen EM interventions were performed. When an EM-guided biopsy was performed, the intervention was done immediately prior to ablation. For all 19 EM interventions, only one skin-puncture was required. The mean number of instrument adjustments required was 1.2 (range, 0 to 2). The mean time for each EM intervention was 5.2 minutes (range, 1 to 20 minutes). Pneumothorax occurred in 5 patients (50%). Only the number of instrument adjustments was significantly related to the pneumothorax rate (p = 0.005).

Conclusions: The EM navigation is feasible and seems to be a useful aid for image-guided procedures. Early experience suggests a low number of skin-puncture and instrument adjustments using the EM navigation system. Instrument adjustments were a key factor in pneumothorax development.

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