The technique, called UroNav, fuses information from a prostate MRI to ultrasound images
taken during the biopsy.
Not exact matches
More Uses for Ultrasound Ultrasound can also be used to guide a surgeon
during a breast
biopsy, so the most accurate tissue sample can be
taken.
The new «tumor in a dish» method begins by
taking the cancerous tissue removed
during surgery or
biopsy, cutting it up into small pieces and putting them in a special collagen gel that maintains them as «organoids» that retain the three - dimensional structure of the original tumor and include supporting cells from the tumor's environment.
When the researchers
took biopsies of the patients» tumors
during the trial, they confirmed that their hypothesis about how the tumors would respond was correct.
During the colonoscopy procedure, two mucosal
biopsies were
taken from the left colon and analyzed.
«We hope that, one day, multimodal endoscopic imaging techniques could help doctors make quick decisions
during surgery, without the need for
taking biopsies, using staining treatments or performing complex histopathological procedures,» said Jürgen Popp, from Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology in Jena, Germany and the paper's lead author.
During a
biopsy, a small amount of the cancerous tissue is
taken and analyzed under a microscope.
Swanton and his team
took biopsies from four kidney cancer patients at various locations within the same tumors, and from metastases, at different times
during their course of treatments.
The research shows that the changes that occur after weight loss translate to a huge caloric disadvantage of about 250 to 400 calories... Muscle
biopsies taken before,
during and after weight loss show that once a person drops weight, their muscle fibers undergo a transformation, making them more like highly efficient «slow twitch» muscle fibers.
The stool test showed the infection cleared, and then
biopsies taken taken during a gastroscopy were also clear.
During the rhinoscopy,
biopsies and possibly cultures are
taken for further diagnosis.
The patients were seen every three months
during the nearly four - year study, and liver
biopsies were
taken at 18 months and 3.5 years to determine the progression of liver disease.