These so-called "false positives" often lead to expensive, anxiety-producing, and invasive testing such as biopsy and fine-needle aspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dr. Jon LaPook: Doctors Answer Mammogram Concerns] Reference

I've quizzed Dr. Man about the work-up these things normally receive (it helps that he's studying this for the USMLE) and it shouldn't be too bad (worst-case initial work-up is a fine-needle biopsy).    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-03-01] Reference

A breast lump biopsy is known as a fine-needle aspiration biopsy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

Rapid detection and profiling of cancer cells in fine-needle aspirates.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

During fine-needle aspiration, a long, thin needle is inserted into the suspicious area.    From Wordnik.com.  [Health News from Medical News Today] Reference

In recent years, fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC) has become a widely accepted procedure in the diagnosis of bone lesions.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

The aim of this study is to perform a cost-effectiveness comparison between palpation-guided thyroid fine-needle aspiration biopsies (P-FNA) and ultrasound-guided thyroid FNA biopsies (USG-FNA).    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

Cancer Center, Dartmouth's Hitchcock Medical Center and the University of Sherbrooke to develop a microRNA-based diagnostic test to aid the detection of pancreatic cancer from fine-needle aspirate (FNA) biopsies.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE MEDICAL NEWS] Reference

Without the need for chunks of tissue to analyze, core biopsies could potentially be replaced in most situations by fine-needle aspiration or even assessment of circulating tumor cells in blood samples, he speculated.    From Wordnik.com.  [MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians] Reference

The technique of fine-needle aspiration biopsy for collecting cancer cells from the living eye has been utilized at the Jules Stein Eye Institute since 2004, but adopted by only a handful of other ophthalmic centers in the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The technique of fine-needle aspiration biopsy for collecting cancer cells from the living eye has been utilized at the Jules Stein Eye Institute since 2004 but has been adopted by only a handful of other ophthalmic centers in the nation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emaxhealth] Reference

The breakthrough allows them to study in fine detail the biology of how tumors develop and has the potential to help doctors identify dangerous tumor cells from small samples such as fine-needle biopsies from the prostate or a non-invasive lesion in the breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

"Accurate classification of non-small cell lung carcinoma using a novel microRNA-based approach," shows that Rosetta Genomics 'miRview ™ squamous test accurately classified NSCLC samples both from resections, as well as from fine-needle aspirate (FNA) cell blocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference

The study, "Accurate classification of non-small cell lung carcinoma using a novel microRNA-based approach," shows that Rosetta Genomics 'miRview squamous test accurately classified NSCLC samples both from resections, as well as from fine-needle aspirate cell blocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [StreetInsider.com News Articles] Reference

We investigated whether gene expression and gene mutation analysis by newly developed ultra-sensitive three-dimensional (3D) microarray is possible using small amount samples from endoscopic ultrasound-guided fine-needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) specimens and pancreatic juices.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

AUSTIN, Texas - (Business Wire) Asuragen, Inc., a leader in molecular diagnostics and RNA-based pharmacogenomics services, announced today that it has entered into research agreements with The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Brigham and Women's H.spital, the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Dartmouth's H.tchcock Medical Center and the University of Sherbrooke to develop a microRNA-based diagnostic test to aid the detection of pancreatic cancer from fine-needle aspirate (FNA) biopsies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Earth Times Online Newspaper] Reference