Medical procedure

Articles

• hepatic FNA
  8 December 2006

  fine needle aspiration of the liver; liver cytology
  Digital cases
  Hepatocellular Carcinoma, FNA and Core Biopsy by Ed Euthman.

• transurethral resection of the prostate
  8 February 2012

  TURP
  When transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) is done without clinical suspicion of cancer, prostate cancer is incidentally detected in approximately 8-10% of the specimens.
  Cancers detected at TURP are often transition zone tumours, but they may also be of peripheral zone origin, particularly when they are large.
  It is recommended that the extent of tumour is reported as percentage of the total specimen area.
  If the tumour occupies less than 5% of the specimen it is stage (...)

• colonoscopy
  28 July 2007

  Videos
  Colonoscopy

• total parenteral nutrition
  2 April 2005

  TPN; exclusive parenteral nutrition; EPT
  Digital cases
  HPC:402 : Steatosis and hemosiderosis after parenteral nutrition
  HPC:404 : Cirrhosis after parenteral nutrition
  HPC:410 : Cirrhosis in protracted exclusive parenteral nutrition
  Synopsis
  hepatic fibrosis cirrhosis
  lobular cholestasis
  massive macrophagic lipid accumulation presenting as hepatosplenomegaly and lymphadenopathy (#9635689#) (...)

• endometrial ablation
  12 July 2007

  endometrial resection

• prostate needle biopsy
  8 February 2012

  The current standard method for detection of prostate cancer is by transrectal ultrasound-guided core biopsies.
  Directed biopsies to either lesions detected on digital rectal examination or on ultrasound should be combined with systematic biopsies taken according to a standardized protocol.
  The sextant protocol samples the apex, mid and base region bilaterally. Sextant biopsies aim at the centre of each half of the prostate equidistant from the midline and the lateral edge while the most (...)

• ECMO
  15 January 2006

  Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO)

• bone marrow allograft
  12 March 2004

  bone marrow transplantation, BMA, BMT, allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation