Not just a pretty picture!

For those who think that radiologists sit around all day looking at pictures, I invite you to consider the attached picture. This is a patient who had a mass in her neck just behind her throat. This is what I did to get a piece of it: under CT guidance, I stuck a needle through her cheek down to the back of her throat just in front of her spine. The following is one of the images from the procedure. It is a slice through the patient's head.



Note that the carotid artery is directly adjacent to the mass. This is not an activity for the faint of heart or the weak of sphincter.