Having a Bronchoscopy
…a clear view of your airways and also allows your doctor to collect lung secretions or take biopsy samples. Local anaesthetic is used to make the procedure more comfortable, and…
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…a clear view of your airways and also allows your doctor to collect lung secretions or take biopsy samples. Local anaesthetic is used to make the procedure more comfortable, and…
…using only a tiny incision, so that a pathologist, an expert in making diagnoses from tissue samples, can examine it under a microscope. Because this biopsy is done through the…
…samples can be taken and examined under a microscope for the presence of cancer. We use two very similar methods according to what your MRI scan has shown. The clinician…
…your lung. The doctor will use an ultrasound scanner to look at the glands (lymph nodes) in the area and may take samples using a needle. Most patients have an…
…prostate are advised when there is a suspicion of prostate cancer. Small tissue samples can be taken from the prostate and examined under a microscope for the presence of cancer….
…are used to guide the biopsy needle to the exact location. Several small tissue samples are removed and sent to Pathology, where they will be assessed under a microscope to…
…look and collect samples of tissue and fluids from the lungs. “These procedures are very technical and require specialist scopes to do this. Each scope, between procedures, needs to be…
…10.8 cases per 100 000 children. It is more common in boys than girls and is more common in obese children. The typical age on onset is 11 to 12…
…and an emerging technology that builds on over 100 years of histological techniques to create digitized images of histological glass slides, which, traditionally, had to be viewed using a microscope….
…longer than 40 weeks and who do not have an appointment within the next eight weeks will be contacted by their hospital via letter, text, or email. They will be…