Dissemination of tumour cells from fine needle biopsy.
Department of Thoracic Surgery, City Hospital, Nottingham.
A 53 year old woman developed a cutaneous tumour implant in the needle track after transcutaneous fine needle biopsy of a pulmonary adenocarcinoma. The tumour implant was completely excised.
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