ArticleJournal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR2024
Comparison of a Patient-Mounted Needle-Driving Robotic System versus Single-Rotation CT Fluoroscopy to Perform CT-Guided Percutaneous Lung Biopsies.
Article in Journal of vascular and interventional radiology : JVIR, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07277088 (A Prospective, Single-center, Randomized Controlled Clinical Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of the Percutaneous Interventional Surgery Control System for Pulmonary Nodule Biopsy), which is not on this map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
A Prospective, Single-center, Randomized Controlled Clinical Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of the Percutaneous Interventional Surgery Control System for Pulmonary Nodule Biopsy
Who cites it
12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.
- Robotic-assisted versus conventional CT-guided lung biopsy for pulmonary nodules: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of robotic surgery · 2026Pooled it
- Robotic Needle Insertion for CT-guided Percutaneous Biopsy of Thoracoabdominal Lesions: A Prospective Multicenter Randomized Trial.Radiology. Imaging cancer · 2026Trial
- Effective Dose Estimations for the Swiss Survey on Medical Radiation Exposure of the Population in 2023.Health physics · 2026Article
- Why Interventional Radiology Should Consider Robotics: A Step Toward Augmented Interventional Radiology.Cardiovascular and interventional radiology · 2026Article
- Robot-assisted CT-guided interventions: Where are we now and where are we going?European radiology · 2026Review
- Robotics in Interventional Oncology: A Call to Arms?Current oncology reports · 2026Review
- Safer fluoroscopy guided femoral access using a passive robotic support with a 3D printed needle and guidewire inserter.Journal of robotic surgery · 2025Article
- Percutaneous Lung Biopsy: Evidence-Based Techniques to Reduce Complications.Seminars in interventional radiology · 2025Review
- Comparison of robotic versus manual needle insertion for CT-guided intervention: prospective randomized trial.Radiology advances · 2025Article
- The clinical performance of robotic assisted navigation system versus conventional freehand technique for percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Robotic navigation-assisted percutaneous liver puncture: a pilot study.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2025Article
- Improving accuracy in percutaneous lung puncture using thoracic respiratory synchronization and laser angle guidance.Frontiers in medical technology · 2025Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
Funding
Abstract
purposeTo compare the effectiveness of percutaneous lung biopsy using a patient-mounted needle-driving robotic system with that using a manual insertion of needles under computed tomography (CT) fluoroscopy guidance. MATERIALS AND
methodsIn this institutional review board approved study, the cohort consisted of a series of patients who underwent lung biopsies following the intention-to-treat protocol from September 2022 to September 2023 using robot (n = 15) or manual insertion under single-rotation CT fluoroscopy (n = 66). Patient and procedure characteristics were recorded as well as outcomes.
resultsAlthough age, body mass index, and skin-to-target distance were not statistically different, target size varied (median, 8 mm [interquartile range, 6.5-9.5 mm] for robot vs 12 mm [8-18 mm] for single-rotation CT fluoroscopy; P = .001). No statistical differences were observed in technical success (86.7% [13/15] vs 89.4% [59/66], P = .673), Grade 3 adverse event (AE) (6.7% [1/15] vs 12.1% [8/66], P = .298), procedural time (28 minutes [22-32 minutes] vs 19 minutes [14.3-30.5 minutes], P = .086), and patient radiation dose (3.9 mSv [3.2-5.6 mSv] vs 4.6 mSv [3.3-7.5 mSv], P = .398). In robot-assisted cases, the median angle out of gantry plane was 10° (6.5°-16°), although it was null (0°-5°) for single-rotation CT fluoroscopy (P = .001).
conclusionsRobot-assisted and single-rotation CT fluoroscopy-guided percutaneous lung biopsies were similar in terms of technical success, diagnostic yield, procedural time, AEs, and radiation dose, although robot allowed for out-of-gantry plane navigation along the needle axis.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.