Perhaps this whole problem is caused by incorrect terminology used
by the pathologist who reviews the biopsy slide and uses the word «cancer», a word that strikes fear and creates undue stress.
When tissue from the affected footpads is
examined by pathologists, the most remarkable finding is the presence of abnormally high numbers of plasma cells.
A team
led by pathologist Michael Daly of the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland, and biochemist Larry Wackett at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, enlisted a fairly common bacterium that thrives in arid environments.
To determine if the mass is cancerous or benign, a doctor would order a biopsy, which involves the removal of a small tissue sample that is then
analyzed by a pathologist.
They probably sent it out for histopathology
examination by a pathologist which will tell you even more accurately whether the margins were clean.
Here, 39 different RNA molecules are analysed in the same tissue and provide a more complete picture than the standard laborious method
used by pathologist today.
Probably the best work has been
done by pathologists looking at the prostates of men who died for some reason other than prostate cancer and were never known to have prostate cancer.
Biopsy - Mange mites are rarely seen on a skin biopsy sample, although if the sample is
read by a pathologist who specializes in reading skin samples, the type of inflammation seen in the sample can be highly suggestive of sarcoptic mange.
Autopsy
by Pathologist at RVC claimed that as Alfie was a Cavalier King Charles spaniel then heart failure should be expected.
With the new technology, mutations are visualised directly in cancer cells in sections from the tumour tissue and can be evaluated under a
microscope by the pathologist making the cancer diagnosis.
Equally concerning is the relatively large number of cases where PDD is not identified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) test, but the disease is later
confirmed by a pathologist.
This decision was made on the basis of evidence
submitted by pathologists, which stated that all the victims had by this stage suffered irreversible traumatic asphyxia.
The case against XMRV has just been bolstered, however, by a study published last
month by pathologist Ila Singh at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.
For example, says Sridharan, after a prostatectomy is performed, the tumor is
graded by the pathologist and, in combination with other surgical parameters such as the surgical margin positivity, whether the cancer has invaded into the lymph nodes, extra-prostatic extensions, and PSA levels, a recurrence risk is assigned.
«Colitis is generally
assessed by a pathologist, so they have to sit down, look at various areas under a microscope, [and] score how bad the inflammation and the morphological changes of the crypts are in the intestines,» says Kozlowski, adding, «I just wanted to speed up that process.»
The most reliable diagnostic method currently in use is biopsy, where a section of the suspected tumour is extracted surgically and
analysed by a pathologist.
Each sample can take 30 minutes or more to prepare and
interpret by a pathologist, which increases the risk to the patient of infection and negative effects of anesthesia.
Resveratrol made headlines in 2006 when Harvard University scientists led
by pathologist David Sinclair, the other cofounder of Sirtris, detailed its seemingly miraculous properties.
«To put this in perspective,» Madabhushi said, «the machine could do the analysis during «off hours,» possibly running the analysis during the night and providing the results ready for review
by the pathologist when she / he were to come into the office in the morning.»
The researchers, led
by pathologist Matthew Meyerson and his colleagues at Harvard Medical School in Boston, used this disease as a test case for detecting foreign genes.
Tumors were
evaluated by a pathologist at the microscopic level to classify them as either classic or pleomorphic lobular breast cancer.
The second team, led
by pathologist Thijs Kuiken of Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, used a more direct technique to show that H5N1 readily binds to alveoli but not to tissues higher up in the respiratory tract.
Two slides / organ were evaluated and
scored by a pathologist blinded to experimental group using a scoring system described previously (33, 34).
Diagnosis usually requires the histologic examination of a tissue biopsy
specimen by a pathologist, although the initial indication of malignancy can be symptoms or radiographic imaging abnormalities.
Have her keep his body in a refrigerator (NOT a freezer)- this will keep his tissues at the right temperature for analysis for
toxins by a pathologist.
An investigation began into the death of the female German Sheppard and a necropsy was
performed by a Pathologist with the Department of Agriculture.
Many conditions cause CHF, so a confirmed diagnosis is often only
obtained by a pathologist examining the heart tissue during a necropsy of a deceased hamster.
Adenocarcinomas behave malignantly but how aggressively malignant they are depends not on whether they are tubular or papillary, but on other cellular characteristics
described by the pathologist (such as how quickly the cells appear to be dividing and how closely they resemble normal gland cells).
Second, there was the grossly unhelpful advice
proffered by the pathologist Dr Maurice Green in the 1990s to doctors to «think dirty» when diagnosing illnesses in children and to start from the standpoint that the problems arise from misconduct on the part of the carers.
Performed immunohistochemical and histochemical tests staining tissues as required by pathologist
Currently, cancer is present in one in 10 biopsies ordered by physicians, but all must be
analyzed by pathologists to identify the extent and volume of the disease, determine if it has spread and whether the patient has an aggressive or indolent cancer and needs chemotherapy or a less drastic treatment.
Because it may be difficult to differentiate a viral papilloma from other masses that occur in the mouth, a biopsy and histological
examination by a pathologist may be recommended to identify the mass.
It is important that the samples be
read by a pathologist who specializes in reading skin tissue so your veterinarian may want to request an expert or use a specfic laboratory.
It is important that the samples be read
by a pathologist who specializes in reading skin tissue so your veterinarian may need to request a special expert or use a special laboratory.
A biopsy is a piece of tissue that can be preserved and looked at under a
microscope by a pathologist to determine what the lump is (mammary tissue vs. some other tissue that just decided on a whim to form a lump) and whether the lump is cancerous, or as doctors call it, malignant.