A routine ultrasound assessment of a puncture site before performing percutaneous biopsy is reported to increase diagnostic yield and decrease complication rates. It is not clear if real-time ...

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 ...

A breast biopsy procedure is when a tissue or fluid sample is taken from an area that shows suspicious growth on a mammogram, ultrasound MRI or other diagnostic test. A doctor called a pathologist ...

Medical Service: An ultrasound-guided breast biopsy. Service Provider: Grand Strand Medical Center, a 403-bed, for-profit hospital in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. It is one of 182 hospitals owned ...

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid nodule is a procedure in which a small sample of cells is obtained from a thyroid nodule with the aid of a thin needle under ultrasound guidance.

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

Sonographic imaging descriptors combined with histopathological diagnoses can improve the accuracy of assessing benign breast ...

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 ...