0 a medical test in which cells or tissue are removed from someone’s body and examined to check if they are healthy or to diagnose an illness -- biopsi
Pathological characteristics of the hepatic biopsies by gross examinations and microscopy are shown in tables 1 and 2, respectively.
A distinction was made between excision of a benign lesion (excision biopsy) and of a malignant lesion (curative, malignant surgery).
The traditional treatment aimed at symptomatic relief and confirmation of the lesion's benign nature through open surgical excision and biopsy.
Samples were obtained by skin biopsy of the lesion borders.
It has proven effective in the differentiation between cystic and solid masses, and in guidance to biopsy.
When observers finished reading the biopsies, gross and microscopic results were compared.
Patients were assigned to one of three induction chemotherapy regimens to begin after initial diagnostic resection or biopsy and before radiation.
Subjects were matched by age at biopsy, and mammograms were taken at the time of biopsy.
