A paper published in Radiology reported on a series of 198 preoperative CT-guided fiducial marker placement procedures that were performed on 190 patients to localise 205 nodules. The technical success rate was 98.5%. There were no major complications. A total of 202 nodules were resected. Of the resected nodules, 146 were lung cancers, 26 nodules were metastases, 2 were carcinoid tumors, and 28 were benign.
The authors concluded that CT-guided marker placement was an effective and resulted in a low localisation failure rate.
