Disadvantages: 1. First of all, due to the physiological structure of the neck
skin, there are many folds in the neck
skin, and it is difficult to insert a thick needle. An additional incision is required to insert the needle, otherwise the direction of needle
insertion will be limited. At the same time, due to the difficulty of needle
insertion, biopsy During the tissue process, the needle
insertion angle is prone to deviate from the B-
ultrasound guide line
2. Due to the rich
blood supply of the thyroid gland, the incidence of bleeding complications in coarse
needle puncture is higher than that of
fine needle aspiration. Bleeding during puncture increases the distance of the echo of the
lesion and affects the success rate of puncture
3. At present, the
fully automatic biopsy needles commonly used in clinical practice need to be punctured with the assistance of an ultrasonic support, so the needle
path design process cannot deviate from the range of the ejection direction due to the
fixed angle, which often reduces the success rate of biopsy
4. Since the thyroid gland often has multiple nodules, there may be multiple nodules at the same time. For lesions <1cm, the shortest
cutting groove of the current biopsy needle is often greater than 1cm. Most of them are normal thyroid tissue in the back, and there is more damage to the normal thyroid tissue in the back of the
lesion. At the same time, multiple nodules often need to be inserted repeatedly, which increases the incidence of puncture complications.
[0007] (1) The physiological structure of the neck skin. There are many skin folds in the neck, and it is difficult to insert a thick needle. It is necessary to
cut the skin additionally, otherwise the direction of needle insertion will be restricted. At the same time, due to the difficulty of needle insertion, the biopsy tissue Prone to needle deviation leading to B-
ultrasound guide line
[0008] (2) Due to the rich
blood supply of the thyroid gland, the
complication rate of bleeding complications of coarse needle aspiration is higher than that of
fine needle aspiration; sometimes bleeding during the puncture increases the distance of the
lesion echo and affects the success rate of puncture
[0009] (3) At present, biopsies commonly used in clinical practice need to be punctured with the assistance of ultrasonic stents. Therefore, during the
design process of the needle insertion path, the angle cannot deviate from the range of the ejection direction, and the needle insertion direction cannot be flexibly adjusted as needed during the needle insertion process, which often reduces the The success rate of taking materials
[0010] (4) Since the thyroid gland often has multiple nodules, there may be multiple nodules at the same time. When
puncturing a lesion <1 cm, the shortest cutting groove of the current biopsy needle is often greater than 1 cm, and the ejection after reaching the edge of the lesion takes a
small lesion sample , most of which are normal thyroid tissue in the rear, and there is more damage to the normal thyroid tissue behind the lesion. At the same time, repeated needle insertion is often required for multiple nodules, which increases the incidence of puncture complications.
The size of thyroid nodules is not uniform, and the length of the biopsy needle currently used is fixed, which makes the sampling of larger nodules incomplete, and the sampling of smaller nodules is excessive, causing unnecessary thyroid damage
[0011] (5) Fine-needle
aspiration biopsy specimens are small, repeated punctures can make up for the shortcomings of
insufficient sample volume, but repeated punctures increase the incidence of complications such as bleeding; since the fine needle size is 22-25G, B-
ultrasound positioning is more difficult, And it is easily affected by
swallowing by patients; fine-
needle puncture tissue is finely divided, and it is impossible to obtain a complete
capsule like coarse-
needle puncture, which has obvious limitations in the identification of follicular
thyroid cancer and the classification of
thyroid cancer. It is difficult to obtain materials from hard or coarse calcified nodules; the length of the fine needle is 5-10cm, which cannot meet the requirements of deep nodules
Traditional
biopsy needles are equipped with a push rod at the end of the needle to facilitate needle push, but the length of the push needle is fixed and single. Due to the uneven
diameter of thyroid nodules, can the depth of the biopsy needle be adjusted more accurately, and different needle depths can be selected for different nodules , can measure the size of the nodule according to the patient's B-ultrasound, select a specific length, and avoid excessive or insufficient sampling due to the fixed sampling length during sampling, which has become a clinical problem that needs to be solved