PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kasalak, Ö.
AU  - Wouthuyzen-Bakker, M.
AU  - Dierckx, R.A.J.O.
AU  - Jutte, P.C.
AU  - Kwee, T.C.
TI  - Time to Reconsider Routine Percutaneous Biopsy in Spondylodiscitis?
AID  - 10.3174/ajnr.A6994
DP  - 2021 Feb 04
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2021/02/04/ajnr.A6994.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/early/2021/02/04/ajnr.A6994.full
AB  - SUMMARY: Percutaneous image-guided biopsy currently has a central role in the diagnostic work-up of patients with suspected spondylodiscitis. However, on the basis of recent evidence, the value of routine image-guided biopsy in this disease can be challenged. In this article, we discuss this recent evidence and also share a new diagnostic algorithm for spondylodiscitis that was recently introduced at our institution. Thus, we may move from a rather dogmatic approach in which routine image-guided biopsy is performed in any case to a more individualized use of this procedure.