HYPOTHESIS Axillary relapse in node-negative patients staged with sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy alone is no more frequent than in patients treated with standard axillary dissection. Morbidity is less for patients who had SLN biopsy. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PATIENTS Between October 14, 1997, and August 31, 2001, 1253 consecutive women with primary invasive breast cancer were prospectively ente...

AIM To evaluate the diagnostic value of the 10 systematic transrectal ultrasound-guided (TRUS) prostate biopsy compared with the sextant biopsy technique for patients with suspected prostate cancer. METHODS One hundred and fifty-two patients with suspected prostate cancer were included in the study. Patients were entered in the study because they presented with high levels of prostate specifi...

BACKGROUND The combination of endobronchial biopsy with cytological brushing is considered the best procedures for the diagnosis of lung cancer during bronchoscopy. AIM To asses the diagnostic yield for lung cancer (with visible endobronchial alterations at endoscopy) of three fiberoptic bronchoscopy procedures: endobronchial biopsy, cytological brushing and bronchial cytological washings. ...

848 testicular biopsy slides of 664 infertile men were reviewed from the archive of jahad daneshgahi pathology center. tite mean age of patients was 33 years. bilateral testicular biopsies were performed in 197 cases. in 47 cases (23.9%) the histopathologic findings were not identical mixed pattern were encountered frequently which must be kept in mirul in pathologic evaluations and reports.

Objective To develop a multiplex PCR protocol for routine screening of microdeletions on the Y chromosome Methods Five multiplex sets were established and Y chromosome microdeletions screening were carried out in 26 azoospermic men who undertook ICSI and 30 azoospermic men who undertook testicular biopsy. Results In 56 azoospermic men, 5 patients were found with AZFc/DAZ microdeletions, 2 patie...

To determine the utility of transrectal ultrasound (TRUS)-guided 10-core prostate biopsy (sextant plus 4 far lateral cores) for Japanese patients, we compared it with the standard sextant for detection of prostate cancer. The study patients were 564 consecutive Japanese men (median age 71 years) who underwent 10-core biopsy because of PSA values of > or = 2.0 ng/ml at Hiroshima University Hospi...

INTRODUCTION Cryoablation is an acceptable treatment option for small renal cortical neoplasms (RCN). Unlike extirpative interventions, intraoperative needle biopsy is the only pathologic data for ablated tumors. It is imperative that sampled tissue accurately captures pathology. We studied the optimal intraoperative needle core biopsy protocol for small RCN during laparoscopic renal cryoablat...

background: the purpose of this study was to evaluate the results of stereotactic breast core needle biopsy in a tertiary breast center of tehran university of medical sciences. methods: patients who were candidates for mammography-guided stereotactic breast core biopsy from march 2011 to december 2013 were included in this study. stereotactic biopsy was performed by a dedicated prone hologic m...

abstract background: enchondroma, is the most frequent bone tumor of the hand , but chondrosarcoma is rare at this location .there is a high possibility of correct diagnosis of enchondroma and differentiating from its malignant counterpart by precise clinical and radiologic assessment without biopsy, a subject of debate in the literature . at the present study we substantially investigate this ...

primary malignant lymphoma of the male external genitalia is extremely rare and it is even rarer in the penis. because of its rarity, the possibility of delay in diagnosis and mismanagement is always there. it can present as a nodule, non-healing ulcer, stricture urethra or periurethral abscess. we report a case presenting first a nodule and later on as a non-healing ulcer which was diagnosed b...