To Biopsy or Not to Biopsy

to biopsy a small renal mass, or not?

To Biopsy a Small Renal Mass, or Not?

Please cite this paper as: Chatzidarellis E, Skolarikos A, Papatsoris AG. To Biopsy a Small Renal Mass or Not? Nephro-Urol Mon. 2012;4(2): 423-4. DOI: 10.5812/numonthly.3991 Implication for health policy/practice/research/medical education: As abdominal imaging has increased the diagnosis of small renal masses (SRMs) the role of renal mass biopsy (RMB) is debatable. Current literature demonstra...

cancer biopsy in ancient persian medicine: do or not to do!

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Muscle Biopsy

Muscle biopsy has been used for a long time for diagnosis of muscular, nerurogenic and systemic disorders with muscle involvement, because only very few of these disorders show sufficient specific clinical features for definite diagnosis. Since the presence of difficulties in the screening of numerous genes, muscle biopsy could be a time and cost effective procedure for solving the diagnostic p...

Fine needle aspiration biopsy, core needle biopsy or excision biopsy to diagnose breast cancer - which is the ideal method?

BACKGROUND The ideal method for diagnosis of breast cancer is debatable. METHODS The methods of diagnosis of 436 new cases of breast adenocarcinoma presenting from Jan 2005 till Dec 2006 at the University Malaya Medical Centre (UMMC) were examined in this study. RESULTS A total of 388 cases presented to the breast unit in UMMC primarily and 48 cases were diagnosed in non-breast units in oth...