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 Apr 01
TA  - American Journal of Neuroradiology
PG  - 627--631
VI  - 42
IP  - 4
4099  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/42/4/627.short
4100  - http://www.ajnr.org/content/42/4/627.full
SO  - Am. J. Neuroradiol.2021 Apr 01; 42
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.