Laparoscopy is a surgical procedure used to diagnose and treat endometriosis. If your doctor recommends a laparoscopy, it will be used to look for and possibly remove implants and scar tissue. But laparoscopy is not always needed. It is usually done when infertility requires rapid treatment and probable surgery or when treatment has not relieved pain or infertility.
"My Father had a biopsy to make sure the lump was not cancerous"
Examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease is known as biopsy.
Biopsy
Yes. Having a child does not protect you from endometriosis. While having endometriosis often makes becoming pregnant difficult for women, becoming pregnant will also reduce the symptoms of endometriosis. So, being diagnosed with endometriosis after having a child makes it rather difficult for your doctor to determine whether you had endometriosis prior to the pregnancy or if it became an issue post-pregnancy - especially if you were positively diagnosed with endometriosis shortly after giving birth.
Sometimes, but usually a biopsy is not necessary to determine best treatments for CKD
usually a biopsy determines if it is breastcancer.
CT or ultrasound can be used to guide the doctor in selecting the best location for obtaining the biopsy sample.
Cerebral= brain. A brain biopsy means removing a small piece of tissue, for example, a portion of a mass to determine if the tissue is benign or cancerous.
If a needle biopsy is done, no special preparation is needed. If a large needle biopsy is being done, the doctor may order some tests to determine the clotting ability of the blood.
Any biopsy involves a surgeon and/or a radiologist taking a sample of tissues from one's body to determine presence of a disease. A pathologist then would examine the cells either under a microscope or chemically in order to determine the extent of a disease.
The doctor performed a biopsy on the suspicious mole to determine if it was cancerous.
Yes, a bone marrow biopsy can determine if the donor and recipient are compatible for a bone marrow transplant. This involves analyzing the human leukocyte antigen (HLA) markers present in the bone marrow cells of both the donor and recipient to assess compatibility. Matching these markers increases the chances of a successful transplant.