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Tao Brush.
The Tao brush is a small flexible brush used in TruTest Endometrial Biopsy. Endometrial tissue to a depth of 1.5–2 mm can be collected. It gently brushes the entire inside of the uterus so as to gather a more complete sampling of the endometrium and is less painful than the traditional method [1]. It covers a wide area of the endometrial surface. Therefore, small lesions are less likely to be m...
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OBJECTIVES All gastric ulcers discovered at endoscopy are potentially malignant. Concurrent use of both histological biopsy and cytological brushing has been advocated as a means of increasing the diagnostic yield for neoplasia at the time of initial endoscopy. The purpose of this analysis was to determine the impact of these diagnostic strategies on the cost-effectiveness of detecting malignan...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 2000
ISSN: 1943-7722,0002-9173
DOI: 10.1093/ajcp/114.3.412