Tests are double-checked biopsy tissues are sent to an outside pathologist, MRIs to another radiologist.
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He performed a biopsy to remove the nodule, which turned out to be benign.
It took three more tests, including a lung-tissue biopsy, to nail it down as TB.
Her mammogram was in January, her biopsy in February and surgery (lumpectomy) in March.
After they took a biopsy of her kidneys, Kirsty was told they were 70% scarred.
John Edwards said a biopsy of her rib had showed that the cancer had returned.
The Centers for Disease Control notified New York authorities Friday that a biopsy confirmed the diagnosis.
The punch biopsy removes some deeper tissue and is more likely to get the entire lesion.
It can take a month for a patient outside Kampala to get results from a biopsy.
It is difficult to diagnose mitochondrial diseases and the only current test is a muscle biopsy.
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Results of the post-operative biopsy won't be known for about a week, her office said.
And the microscopic detail shown in the images means a biopsy can be avoided.
Watson says a biopsy is carried out on donated livers to check for any damage.
Magnetic resonance imaging and brain biopsy were consistent with fulminant demyelinating encephalomyelitis with enhancing parenchyma and leptomeninges.
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Labs get paid based on the number of jars used to hold specimens from a prostate biopsy.
Herbert had the tumor removed two days later and it was sent to the lab for biopsy.
It will enable doctors to more accurately decide which men need more regular monitoring or a biopsy.
In the more immediate future it could be used to generate biopsy-like tissue samples for drug testing.
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During a sentinel node biopsy, a dye is injected in the area where your melanoma was removed.
Biopsy can now be done with a needle through the skin using CT imaging to guide the needle.
The classic definition of celiac disease includes atrophy of parts of the small bowel as seen on biopsy.
The trust said the patient should have had a biopsy which would have picked up breast cancer earlier.
In McKinney's case, when a follow-up biopsy revealed she had precancerous lesions, she opted for surgery to remove them.
Today's procedure is a skin biopsy that will be used to study the genetic markers in their subcutaneous fat.
Biopsy and microscopic evaluation of the lesion is often needed to be sure.
This time last year, Gallacher was fighting the viral infection sarcoidosis and even had a biopsy to test for cancer.
She had a biopsy taken which showed that she did have abnormally high numbers of NK cells in her womb lining.
Other tests -- such as a Pap smear for cervical cancer or a lymph node biopsy for lymphoma -- are also safe.
But over time some of these harmless cancers mutate and turn aggressive, growing so much they can be detected in a biopsy.
The tests were repeated on rats, and again in test tubes using tissue taken by biopsy from patients undergoing unrelated medical procedures.
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