Sentences with phrase «multiple biopsies»

She also can take multiple biopsy samples of those areas with the help of the camera.

The procedure of choice for diagnosing the underlying cause of canine colitis is a colonoscopy accompanied by the taking of multiple biopsies from different places of tissues lining the colon.

Also in patients where tissue diagnosis can not be obtained in spite of multiple biopsies, measurement of markers in bile fluid to improve our diagnostic ability would be of immense interest,» explained Dr. Navaneethan.

In 2012, when Swanton and his colleagues sequenced multiple biopsies from two people with kidney cancer, they found that even within a single person, no two samples were the same.

Professor Steven Bova, based at the University of Tampere, Finland, and head of ICGC prostate cancer UK metastatic studies, said: «The diversity we've found suggests multiple biopsies might be needed to identify the «trunk» of the cancer's tree of mutations — we need treatments that target these core weaknesses to destroy all cancer cells in a clean sweep, rather than trimming the branches.

If I considered inflammatory bowel disease was a likely or possible diagnosis, then I would recommend diagnostic ileo - colonoscopy with multiple biopsies.

(The A: G ratio is still one of the few ways, baring multiple biopsies, for your vet to add to his / her suspicions that your cat is suffering from FIP when inflammatory fluids are accumulating in its body or when neurological signs point to that disease; it is not that helpful when the cat's symptoms are vague and might be due to a number of health issues [ref]-RRB-.

It turned out some patients had prostate cancer even after they had multiple biopsies that came back negative; this enabled them to make more informed decisions on appropriate treatment.»