Endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine needle aspiration biopsy (EUS-FNA) is currently performed on a routine basis at many endoscopic centers and it is evident that this procedure has a major impact ...

This position pushes the thyroid gland forward, making it easier to do the biopsy. During the procedure, you may feel some neck pressure from the ultrasound probe and from the needle. You will be ...

When only a specimen of tissue from the kidney is required, a portion of the kidney is exposed and a biopsy performed. An advantage of this technique is that an ultrasound probe may be placed through ...

Chen Wang, Ph.D., a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oklahoma, has been awarded a fellowship from the Prevent Cancer Foundation to develop an optical coherence tomography (OCT) probe for ...

However, liver biopsy is invasive and in many instances ... It involves using the tip of an ultrasound transducer probe placed between the ribs over the right lobe of the liver.

The clinician may move the transducer around a bit ... Sometimes, thyroid ultrasound is combined with thyroid biopsy (also called fine-needle aspiration or FNA). This may be needed if your ...

Chen Wang receives a fellowship for research on improving kidney cancer diagnostics using an OCT probe at the University of Oklahoma.