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Biopsy
Research from P.B. Singh et al has provided new information about biopsy
October 7th, 2008
"There is an increasing necessity to extract the maximum amount of information, beyond even a cancer diagnosis, from prostate biopsies. Thus, maintaining site-specific information regarding individual biopsy cores might be critical," investigators in Preston, the United Kingdom report. "To evaluate the applicability of employing tissue ink to maintain the identity of individual prostatic biopsy cores. In this ongoing study, 12 core prostate biopsy specimens are sent to the laboratory in individual pots labelled according to anatomical site. The specimens are placed in two separate multi-compartment cassettes. They are inked with different colours to identify the site of...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2008-10-07)
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