A stomach biopsy allows your healthcare provider to examine tissues under a microscope. This can help your provider diagnose conditions that affect your stomach and digestive tract. More formally ...

A biopsy of the eye is a test where your eye specialist (ophthalmologist) takes a sample (biopsy) of fluid or tissue from your eye. Your specialist might take a biopsy from your eye to check for ...

If your doctor recommends a liver biopsy, you may feel anxious. A biopsy involves collecting tissue from inside your body so a doctor can study it. The procedure may be uncomfortable, but it’s ...

A breast biopsy involves taking a sample of fluid or tissue from the breast for analysis. Biopsies help doctors diagnose breast cancer. A doctor may perform a surgical or nonsurgical procedure ...

They look inside the abdomen and pelvis and take samples of tissue. Sometimes, your surgeon can check during the operation if there are cancer cells. And if there are, they can continue with the ...

Prostate biopsy under local anaesthetic can be performed via the transrectal (TRUS) or transperineal (LATP) routes. Both use transrectal ultrasound Each prostate biopsy technique has pros and cons, ...

Tissue engineering is a set of methods that can replace or repair damaged or diseased tissues with natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic tissue mimics. These mimics can either be fully functional ...

As part of your mammogram results, you may learn you have dense breast tissue. This is not abnormal; however, it can increase the risk of breast cancer. It is more difficult to see through dense ...

Recently there has been a spike in the number of Blastomycosis cases in the Northeast area with reports coming in from areas around us from Missinabie to Marathon. The cases have involved not only ...

Fine-needle aspiration biopsy of the thyroid nodule is a procedure in which a small sample of cells is obtained from a thyroid nodule with the aid of a thin needle under ultrasound guidance.