needle biopsy
- noun
- /ˈnidəl ˈbaɪəpsi/
- Specialized
- CT-guided needle biopsy revealed a metastatic leiomyosarcoma.
- core needle biopsy
- fine needle biopsy
Examples
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The patient underwent a needle biopsy followed by combined anterior and posterior fusion procedures.
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In pathology, fine needle biopsies of such thyroid masses are common.
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Pathologist who interpreted the needle biopsies of those nodules/cysts
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Confirmatory core needle biopsy is recommended by most authors for suspected primary lesions.
Academic text (2007) -
Endoscopic ultrasound, with or without fine needle biopsy, remains the gold standard, though in CP patients sensitivity can be as low as 54%.
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Histological confirmation of malignant disease was obtained by fine-needle biopsy or at necropsy in 23 patients (20%).
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It's unusual for a combination of mammo and MRI not to give some pretty good answers, and if you follow that up with a needle biopsy, which is painful but hardly dangerous or disfiguring, then your chances of knowing whether or not you have a malignancy are very good.
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Invasive diagnostic tools such as percutaneous lung needle biopsy and bronchoscopy can diagnose lung cancers, but are not recommended for screening purposes due to their potential risks to patients.
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The doctor recommended a needle biopsy to analyze the suspicious tissue sample.
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After the needle biopsy, the patient was relieved to hear the results were benign.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from combining 'needle' (an instrument) with 'biopsy' (analysis of a tissue sample): it denotes a biopsy performed using a needle. This instrument+procedure composition is literal and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents should understand the term.
Etymology
Needle biopsy comes from the simple image of using a hollow needle in a biopsy to take a tiny 'tissue sample' from the body so doctors can 'examine' it without a big operation.