To rule out more serious conditions, your healthcare provider may recommend allergy testing, imaging scans, or a lymph node biopsy. A lymph node biopsy is a procedure where a healthcare provider ...

LNs were categorized by nodal level (N1, N2, N3) and anatomical region (AR), including subcarinal, paratracheal, and hilar nodes. Standardized Uptake Value maximum (SUVmax) was determined for each ...

Positron emission tomography-CT (PET-CT) showed right upper lung cancer with multiple tiny nodules in both lungs (suspected metastatic foci), and the diagnosis of adenocarcinoma of the right lung was ...

The authors noted that the proportion of SBRT patients with occult lymph node metastases is likely at least equal to that in the surgery group, but these metastases would go undetected without ...

This pictorial essay aims to highlight the broader applications of transperineal ultrasound (i.e., those beyond prostate biopsy). We demonstrate various diagnostic and therapeutic uses of ...

The study had three arms to which men were assigned randomly: Micro-ultrasound–guided biopsy (n = 121); biopsies guided by micro-ultrasound and fusion MRI (n = 226), and MRI plus conventional ...

The most widely used method of diagnosing prostate cancer involves a biopsy that passes a needle through the lining of the lower bowel (the rectum) and into the prostate gland, which is performed ...

Local anesthetic transperineal (LATP) biopsy for prostate cancer detection is gaining in popularity due to concerns about infectious complications with transrectal ultrasound (TRUS) biopsy.