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THE VALUE AND LIMITATIONS OF BIOPSY EXAMINATIONS
Author(s) -
Gault Edward W.
Publication year - 1966
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1966.tb06054.x
Subject(s) - medicine , biopsy , stage (stratigraphy) , general surgery , needle biopsy , disease , radiology , surgery , medical physics , pathology , paleontology , biology
Summary A biopsy involves close co‐operation between a surgeon and a pathologist if a representative piece of tissue is to be obtained, and diagnosed. The surgeon must appreciate the limitations placed on the pathologist as he examines many tissues at an early stage of disease. The pathologist must seize every opportunity of correlating his histological evidence with the clinical history, X‐ray appearance, other laboratory investigations, and the ultimate course of the disease. Only in these ways can the patient benefit to the full from a biopsy.