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wedge biopsy

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wedge biopsy
Surgical pathology An excisional biopsy in which a lesion identified at the time of a surgical procedure is removed, with a wedge of normal surrounding tissue. See Biopsy, Excisional biopsy, Wedge resection.


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Two percutaneous liver biopsies and a mini-laparotomy with wedge biopsy and portal node biopsy were performed.
Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) and wedge biopsy of the lung revealed lymph node pathology, epithelioid granulomata with Langhans giant cells and lymphohistiocytic aggregates.
Cholecystectomy was done, and a wedge biopsy specimen was taken from the liver for histologic examination.
 
 
 
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