Sentences with phrase «benign neoplasms»

Benign neoplasms are usually easier to treat.

A neoplasm is a tumor that grows as opposed to one that swells; a benign neoplasm is non-cancerous, and a malignant neoplasm is cancer.

Not exact matches

From a u-CT scan and an X-ray, researchers identified a fibrous dysplastic neoplasm — today, the most common form of benign bone tumor in humans — located on a Neandertal left rib fragment that measured 30 mm (4 1/2 inches) long.

First author Michele T. Yip - Schneider, Ph.D., associate research professor of surgery, and senior author C. Max Schmidt, M.D., Ph.D., MBA, professor of surgery, biochemistry and molecular biology, report this is the first cyst fluid protein biomarker that can differentiate serous cystic neoplasms, a benign type of cystic lesion, from all other cancerous or precancerous cystic lesions without surgery.

A serous cystic neoplasm (SCN) is a rare tumor of the pancreas that is usually benign.

Another is when they begin to grow abnormally, resulting in benign (not cancer) or cancerous tumors (also called neoplasms).

This examination can help determine whether the neoplasm is benign or malignant.

There is also controversy as to what criteria should be used to establish whether a lesion that arises in the skin or soft tissues is or is not a neoplasm, and if so, whether it is benign or malignant.»

While these tumors are typically benign in nature, they account for 2.5 percent of all canine neoplasms.

Skin tumors are the most commonly diagnosed neoplasms in veterinary medicine.2 These neoplasms represent a diverse group of benign and malignant growths arising from a variety of cell types.