Biopsy
Boston University details research in biopsy
Published in Cancer Weekly, April 7th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "The authors evaluated the effectiveness of the oral brush biopsy technique as a diagnostic tool in detecting dysplastic oral lesions. In this cross-sectional study, pathologic reports (n=152) from the scalpel biopsies (tissue samples) in patients who previously tested either ''positive'' (n=3) or ''atypical'' (n=149) for dysplasia by brush biopsy (OralCDX) were evaluated."
"Information on the age and sex of the patient, the site of the lesion, the brush biopsy results, and the histopathologic diagnosis of the scalpel biopsy was collected. The positive predictive values (PPVs) for ''abnormal,'' ''atypical,'' and ''positive''...
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