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CT-Guided Percutaneous Biopsy of a Mass Lesion in the Upper Presacral Space: A Sacral Transneuroforaminal Approach

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This work was supported through an educational grant from Bracco Imaging S.p.A., Milano, Italy.

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  1. Department of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Tilman Schubert, Augustinus L. Jacob, Martin Takes & Sebastian Kos

  2. Department of Pathology, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland

    Thomas Menter

  3. Department of Radiology, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

    Andreas Gutzeit

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Schubert, T., Jacob, A.L., Takes, M. et al. CT-Guided Percutaneous Biopsy of a Mass Lesion in the Upper Presacral Space: A Sacral Transneuroforaminal Approach. Cardiovasc Intervent Radiol 35, 1255–1257 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00270-011-0232-9

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