Women who are pregnant should inform their doctor before a lymph node biopsy, although pregnancy will not affect the results.

This will vary depending upon what the lymph node biopsy is for. Sometimes all or part of just one node is collected; other times several nodes may be sampled.

four weeks

Use CPT 38505 for superficial needle biopsy of lymph nodes.

The difference between incision and excision of lymph nodes is very simple. The incision of a lymph node is when the biopsy only takes part of the lymph node during surgery. The excision of the lymph node is when the whole lymph node is removed.