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 ...

Healthcare providers may use ultrasound technology to guide a needle biopsy to remove fluid or ... produced and detected by a ...

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 ...

probe. Currently, ultrasounds are the standard for visualizing kidney tissue biopsies. However, traditional ultrasound does not give doctors an accurate location of the biopsy needle tip ...

The optimal biopsy strategy might have the following ... the rectum and applied to the anus to aid toleration of the ultrasound probe. After two minutes, a bi-planer 7.5 MHz ultrasound ...

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 ...

Robotic bronchoscopy can help diagnose spots in the lungs when they are still small, catching cancer sooner and saving many ...