• Drlogy Plus
Home/Medical Dictionary/Stereotactic core needle biopsy

Stereotactic core needle biopsy

A procedure that uses x-ray images taken at different angles to find an abnormal area in the body. The images help guide the removal of a tissue sample from that area with a wide, hollow needle. The tissue sample is then checked under a microscope for signs of disease, such as cancer. A stereotactic core needle biopsy may be done when a lump or mass cannot be felt or when the abnormal area cannot be seen clearly on other imaging tests. It may be used to check for certain types of cancer, including cancers of the breast, lung, liver, and brain.

Explore Medical Terms

20000+ Medical & Health Terms for Doctors, students & patients from a medical dictionary. Our experts define difficult medical & health language in easy-to-understand explanations of each and every medical term.

Medical & Health Terms online medical dictionary provides quick & easy access to hard-to-spell and often misspelled medical & health definitions through an extensive alphabetical A-Z listing.

DOCTOR'S MOST TRUSTED HEALTHCARE PLATFORM

10M+

Patients

30000+

Doctors

25000+

Hospitals/Labs

Dictionary

Abbreviation

App

Health

Plus