Biopsy

The 55-year-old police officer describes in his lawsuit the tragic sequence of events and the negligence of the doctors that turned his life into a nightmare, after he entered the hospital for an appendectomy and was infor

A shocking story has come to light involving a police officer from Thessaloniki who was informed of a terminal cancer diagnosis a year after undergoing surgery for appendicitis at a military hospital.

About 2.8 million Greek citizens aged 50-69 will be given the opportunity to do free tests for colon cancer, including a colonoscopy and biopsy.

The national pre-symptomatic testing program will allow people not already diagnosed with colon cancer, Lynch syndrome, adenomatous polypsis, Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis to get a self-test, free of charge, from pharmacies.

A patient paid 900 euros at ‘Evangelismos’ for a brain biopsy, while at a private clinic they would pay up to 4,500 euros – From this week, ‘G. Gennimatas’, ‘Sotiria’, Attikon’ enter the race

Importantly, these images provide an insight that would only otherwise be obtained by destructive dissection and tissue sampling

A neurosurgeon investigating a woman's mystery symptoms in an Australian hospital says she plucked a wriggling worm from the patient's brain.

Surgeon Hari Priya Bandi was performing a biopsy through a hole in the 64-year-old patient's skull at Canberra Hospital last year when she used forceps to pull out the parasite, which measured 8 centimeters, or 3 inches.

In the last 24 hours, 23 patients died from the complications of the disease