Hospital, doctor's office, or commercial surgical facility. You will be given another dose just before the biopsy. You may not eat or drink on the morning of the procedure. You remove all clothing and don a hospital gown. Equipment used Biopsy needle, collecting tube, adhesive bandage, and fluoroscope or CT scanner.
Local anesthesia is administered at the biopsy site.
The anesthetic is injected into the skin and sometimes into the portion of the bone itself where the nerve fibers run. A sedative is given intravenously. A hollow needle is introduced into your body and guided to the area of suspected bone abnormality with the help of a fluoroscope or CT scanner. The site is determined by measuring a specific distance from the hip bone, making a scanner unnecessary. A sample of the synovium, the lining covering bone cartilage, may also be removed.