Sentences with phrase «guided fine needle»

This includes ultrasound - guided fine needle aspirates / biopsies.

Ultrasonography can be used as a tool to perform a guided fine needle aspiration if the kidney is not easily palpated on examination.

At both locations, we're able to offer diagnostic ultrasound with ultrasound guided fine needle aspiration and ultrasound guided biopsies.

An ultrasound - guided fine needle aspiration of the gall bladder or an ultrasound - guided biopsy may be done to evaluate the bile or look for abnormal cells or evidence of infection.

We offer in - house ultrasound services including thoracic and abdominal ultrasound, echocardiography, pregnancy ultrasound, and ultrasound - guided fine needle aspirates or biopsies.

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Previously, the most accurate form of testing for thyroid cancer was a fine - needle aspiration biopsy, where a doctor guides a thin needle to the thyroid and removes a small tissue sample for testing.

They guided fine, light - conducting needles into the same area through a port attached to the animal's skull.

Finally, the team guided fine, light - conducting needles into the same area through a port permanently attached to the animal's skull.

Guided by a camera and the ultrasound probe, Waxman carefully positioned the endoscope over the tumor and passed a fine needle into the pancreatic lesion to sample tissue cells for biopsy.

Physicians can also use endoscopes to collect tissue for biopsy in a procedure called «endoscopic ultrasound - guided, fine needle aspiration.»

The technology can also be used to identify masses or tumors and as a guide during fine needle aspirates or cystocentesis.

When urine, blood cultures, and serology have not identified a cause, CT or fluoroscopy - guided fine - needle aspiration of the infected disc space may be performed under general anesthesia, or a surgical biopsy specimen from the lesion can be obtained for culture.

Blood cultures in dogs yield positive results in about 45 % to 75 % of cases, and urine cultures are positive in about 25 % to 50 % of cases.1 Serologic testing for Brucella antibody and Aspergillus antigen may be performed.5 Cerebral spinal fluid analysis is often normal, but increased protein concentration (albuminocytologic dissociation) or a neutrophilic pleocytosis is occasionally observed.1 When urine, blood cultures, and serology have not identified a cause, CT or fluoroscopy - guided fine - needle aspiration of the infected disc space may be performed under general anesthesia, or a surgical biopsy specimen from the lesion can be obtained for culture.

Many times they are too sick to risk anesthesia, so an ultrasound - guided fine - needle aspirate of the liver may be taken to provide a definitive diagnosis.