Electrocautery Biopsy Tract Closure Safe in Multicenter Study of 120 Patients

In a retrospective study of 120 patients, electrocautery tract closure after percutaneous core needle biopsy resulted in no major bleeding, transfusions, or procedure-related deaths at 30 days, with four small intraprocedural hematomas that did not progress.

• Procedures were ultrasound- (52.5%) or CT-guided (47.5%) and completed in 17±8 minutes.
• Outpatients discharged after 2.8±1.2 hours; no bleeding-related readmissions through 30 days.
• No significant hemoglobin drop (>1.5 g/dL) in a 65-patient subgroup.

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