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 ...

Mucocele-like lesions of the breast are ruptured ducts that discharge their contents into the stroma. They constitute a spectrum from benign to atypical to malignant. The current management of these ...

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 ...

Generally larger with irregular borders, dysplastic nevi are acquired melanocytic skin lesions. What is the best location to sample when obtaining a punch biopsy from a potential dysplastic nevus or ...

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 ...