The use of a noninvasive pigmented lesion assay significantly improved biopsy specifity, which may allow dermatologists to miss fewer melanomas while reducing the number of benign lesions biopsied, ...

Doing an immediate biopsy in patients with a suspicious oral lesion — or referring a patient to a specialist who can — remains the single most important recommendation made by the American Dental ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . KOLOA, Hawaii — Distinguishing between benign and malignant lesions is key when managing eyelid lesions, a ...

An expert discusses features of a skin lesion that would prompt a skin biopsy in the diagnosis of locally advanced basal cell carcinoma (laBCC). Anna C. Pavlick, D.O.: Biopsies do not have to be done ...

A dry suction technique was noninferior to a wet suction technique for endoscopic ultrasound–guided fine-needle biopsy (EUS-FNB) in patients with solid pancreatic lesions, with comparable diagnostic ...

In tertiary referral centres a number of patients are referred with eyelid malignancies, which have been confirmed by biopsy. The precise location of the biopsy is not always specified and this can ...

When metastatic tumors driven by drug-targetable genetic mutations become resistant to a targeted therapy drug, the usual practice is to biopsy a single metastatic lesion to test for new mutations ...

Regular skin exams can identify suspicious lesions, but an accurate diagnosis requires a biopsy. During the biopsy, a doctor will inject a local anesthetic in the area of the lesion and then remove a ...

Biopsy means removal tissue samples from a suspected lesion. It is one of the most important diagnostic tools for detection and confirmation of certain cancers. It can also determine the type of ...

Optical coherence tomography (OCT) offers a noninvasive approach for localizing the most representative site to biopsy in a suspicious oral lesion, according to a study in Lasers in Medical Science ...

Randomized Phase II Study of 3 Months or 2 Years of Adjuvant Afatinib in Patients With Surgically Resected Stage I-III EGFR-Mutant Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer Needle biopsy represents a less invasive ...

“All cancerous tissue was successfully removed," Dr. Kevin O'Connor said. The lesion removed from President Joe Biden's chest during his physical last month was cancerous, White House physician Dr.