Related factors with diagnostic yield and intracranial hemorrhagic complications in frame-based stereotactic biopsy....

The frame-based stereotactic biopsy is a minimally invasive technique that allows us to obtain a sample of brain tissue for subsequent diagnosis and treatment. The scope of this article is to review the published data related to the factors that could condition its diagnostic yield, and the appearance of post-biopsy hemorrhagic complications. PubMed search, last updated June 2020, was conducted using the terms "stereotactic biopsy", "diagnostic yield" and "intracranial post-biopsy hemorrhage". A total of 38 studies, that showed descriptive or analytical results, were included, and reviewed. Our literature review show that some characteristics of the lesion and surgical procedure peculiarities are significantly related with the effectiveness and safety of the technique. In this way, they must be taken into account in order to optimize its results.