Diagnostic microRNA serum profile in pancreatic cancer. Background: Endoscopic ultrasound (EUS) guided biopsy allows cytologic and/or histologic diagnosis of lesions within or adjacent to the ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the use of ultrasound (US)-guided core biopsy of axillary nodes in patients with operable breast cancer. The ipsilateral axillae of 187 patients with suspected ...

From a total of 142 studies, six studies remained after reviewing published documents. All six had some evidence of bias, including a lack of initial randomization. The "gold standard" for determining ...

The endoscopy team at UC Davis Health in Sacramento have completed the world’s first endoscopic, ultrasound-guided core biopsy of a pancreatic tumor with a new device. The procedure was performed by ...

Ultrasound-guided core biopsy is a safe and feasible procedure for the histologic diagnosis of small renal masses, according to a recent study. Sung Yoon Park, MD, and colleagues at Samsung Medical ...

Transrectal ultrasound-guided needle biopsy of the prostate is routinely performed to diagnose prostate cancer. We performed a prospective study to assess the pain and identify risk factors of pain ...

This study recruited 65 women of whom 94% were node-positive, and 60% were hormone receptor-negative. The pCR rate was 41.5% and 53.8% for the whole cohort and the hormone receptor–negative subgroup, ...