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For example, when 'percutaneous' lung biopsies are performed the needle can be guided in through the lung under direct vision.

The diagnosis was also confirmed in all three patients who had a preoperative 'percutaneous' needle biopsy.

Several types of skin testing instruments are available for 'percutaneous' skin testing.

Diagnosis usually requires incisional biopsy, but when necessary it can be made with a well planned 'percutaneous' core needle biopsy.

Dysphagic patients should be fed through a nasogastric tube or 'percutaneous' endoscopic feeding tube until it is safe to resume oral food and fluids.

Alternatively, a catheter can be inserted 'percutaneously' through the anterior wall of the trachea.

Most of our specimens were obtained 'percutaneously' either by the clinician, cytopathologist, or radiologist.

With this method, blood cultures are taken simultaneously through the suspected central catheter and 'percutaneously' from a distant site.

It was not until the 1980s that therapeutic cardiac electrophysiology emerged; this procedure, carried out while patients are conscious, uses wires passed 'percutaneously' to the heart to ablate the cause of arrhythmias.

Another arterial catheter was placed 'percutaneously' into the left brachial artery.