Biopsy Specimen Articles & Analysis
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The impacts of these challenges are also significant for the patients whose specimens are under review. The literature shows that pathologists, being only humans under considerable pressure, may miss cancer in up to 1-3% of prostate biopsies.2,3,4 Considering the over one million men who are diagnosed worldwide per year, this may reflect a large number of ...
Frame-based stereotactic interventions are considered the conventional gold reference standard for obtaining biopsy specimens of lesions from the brain. In this modality, a bulky head frame is fixed to the patient’s head before imaging procedures as it is an integral part of a frame-based biopsy. ...