Muscle biopsy is a minor surgical procedure that involves making an incision in the skin to obtain a few small pieces of the underlying muscle for detailed histologic, histochemical, or biochemical ...

2 Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Keele University School of Medicine ... They increase considerably after intensive exercise and in muscle pathology. 1, 2 Muscle biopsy findings have ...

During surgery, your doctor may also do a lymph node biopsy. This procedure lets them take a sample of lymph nodes to inspect ... But they will remove a small part of the chest muscle only if the ...

"This research shows that by adding an MRI pre-biopsy we can cut the time taken to correct treatment for the worst bladder tumours -- those that invade the bladder muscle wall -- by almost half ...