Biopsy
A biopsy is a procedure that removes a small piece of living tissue from your body. The tissue is examined with a microscope for signs of damage or disease. Biopsies can be done on all parts of the body. A biopsy is the only test that can tell for sure if a suspicious area is cancer. But biopsies are performed for many other reasons too.
There are different ways to do a biopsy. A needle biopsy removes tissue with a needle passed through your skin to the site of the problem. Other kinds of biopsies require surgery.
Your Medical Guide
- Abdominal wall fat pad biopsy
- Biopsy
- Biopsy - biliary tract
- Biopsy - polyps
- Bladder biopsy
- Bone lesion biopsy
- Bone marrow biopsy
- Breast biopsy
- Breast biopsy -- stereotactic
- Breast biopsy -- ultrasound
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Carpal tunnel biopsy
Cold knife cone biopsy
Colposcopy - directed biopsy
Culture - duodenal tissue biopsy
Endometrial biopsy
Gastric tissue biopsy and culture
Gram stain of tissue biopsy
Gum biopsy
Liver biopsy
Lung needle biopsy
Lymph node biopsy
Mediastinoscopy with biopsy
Muscle biopsy
Nasal mucosal biopsy
Nerve biopsy
Open lung biopsy
Open pleural biopsy
Oropharynx lesion biopsy
Parathyroid biopsy
Pleural needle biopsy
Rectal biopsy
Renal biopsy
Salivary gland biopsy
Skin lesion biopsy
Synovial biopsy
Testicular biopsy
Tongue biopsy
Upper airway biopsy
Ureteral retrograde brush biopsy cytology
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Carpal tunnel biopsy
Page last updated on 14 April 2012 Topic last reviewed 17 January 2012