How reliable is the diagnosis of lung cancer using small biopsy specimens? Report of a UKCCCR Lung Cancer Working Party.

JS Thomas, D Lamb, T Ashcroft, B Corrin, CW Edwards… - Thorax, 1993 - thorax.bmj.com
… of bronchoscopic biopsy specimens. METHODS--Eighty bronchial biopsy specimens
showing … diagnostic criteria and diagnosis for each. Diagnoses were then compared with the …

A reliable diagnosis of human rabies based on analysis of skin biopsy specimens

L Dacheux, JM Reynes, P Buchy… - Clinical Infectious …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
… The present study was undertaken to define a reliablediagnosis; our aim was to design a
protocol to replace the classic postmortem diagnostic method that uses brain biopsy specimens

An overview of assessment of prognostic and predictive factors in breast cancer needle core biopsy specimens

EA Rakha, IO Ellis - Journal of clinical pathology, 2007 - jcp.bmj.com
… core biopsy has increased the preoperative diagnosis rate in screen detected breast cancers.5
… NCB, as compared to preoperative fine needle aspiration biopsy, can reliably distinguish …

Add-on Device for Stereotactic Core-Needle Breast Biopsy: How Many Biopsy Specimens Are Needed for a Reliable Diagnosis?1

AK Koskela, M Sudah, MH Berg, VJ Kärjä… - Radiology, 2005 - pubs.rsna.org
… breast biopsy. It may, therefore, be the first choice for most of the smaller centers where breast
cancer is diagnosed. … for reliable histopathlogic diagnosis with an add-on unit is described. …

Reproducibility of liver biopsy diagnosis in relation to the size of the specimen

B Hølund, H Poulsen, P Schlichting - Scandinavian journal of …, 1980 - Taylor & Francis
… Our results show that the biopsy diagnosis of acute viral hepatitis on the basis of the
constant features is very reliable even in biopsies with a specimen length of only 5 mm. The …

A systematic review of the quality of liver biopsy specimens

E Cholongitas, M Senzolo, R Standish… - American journal of …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
… based on adequate liver biopsy samples to provide reliable estimation of grading and staging
in chronic liver disease. Liver biopsy (LB) is an important diagnostic tool and helps make …

Reliability of skin biopsy pathology

PE Boiko, MW Piepkorn - The Journal of the American Board …, 1994 - Am Board Family Med
biopsy specimen usually had the patient's name, age, sex, site ofbiopsy, and a clinical
diagnosis … Even though skin lesions are more reliably diagnosed by histopathologists than are …

Importance of specimen size in accurate needle liver biopsy evaluation of patients with chronic hepatitis C

TD Schiano, S Azeem, CA Bodian… - Clinical …, 2005 - Elsevier
reliably.14, 15 We thus sought to determine whether varying sizes of liver biopsy specimens
… those studies was to establish the correct diagnosis rather than to score specific histologic …

Reliability of fine‐needle aspiration biopsy in the initial diagnosis of soft‐tissue lesions

K Nagira, T Yamamoto, T Akisue, T Marui… - Diagnostic …, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… We retrospectively reviewed fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) specimens of 301 soft
tissue lesions of the extremities and trunk. Final diagnoses were 137 benign and 86 malignant …

Diagnostic needle muscle biopsy. A practical and reliable alternative to open biopsy.

JZ Heckmatt, A Moosa, C Hutson… - Archives of disease in …, 1984 - adc.bmj.com
… a definitive diagnosis was established on our needle biopsy. In the biopsy specimens from
… Two hundred fibres were measured, with the biopsy specimens containing from 400 to 1200 …