Images in a 50-year-old woman with an incidentally detected, enlarging,
10-mm, left upper lobe, part-solid nodule proven to be adenocarcinoma (100%
lepidic). (A) Preliminary axial CT image shows a left upper
lobe nodule (arrow). (B) The coaxial introducer needle was
advanced through the subcutaneous tissue to the pleura. (C) The
needle was advanced deeply to the nodule. (D) The first 3-mm
gold fiducial marker was deployed, and the needle was retracted.
(E) The second fiducial marker was deployed with the nodule
sandwiched between fiducial markers and the pleura. (F)
Postprocedure radiograph demonstrates the two fiducial markers in the left
upper lung (arrow). (G) Radiograph of the specimen with two
fiducial markers in the specimen. (Reprinted, with permission, from
reference 41.)