What does stomach biopsy needle mean

Jan 28, 2023

A gastric biopsy is a biopsy of tissue from the stomach for pathological examination. Usually, when gastroscopy is performed, lesions of gastric mucosa are observed. In order to determine the nature of the lesions, biopsy forceps are needed to remove part of the tissue from the gastric mucosa for pathology.
The purpose of doing a biopsy is to determine the nature of the lesion, whether it's benign or malignant, but when you consider inflammation, look for chronic or active inflammation, and look for atrophic gastritis. Therefore, biopsy pathology is not necessarily malignant, but benign lesions are also biopsied.
Gastric biopsy is one of the commonly used diagnostic and treatment methods for gastric diseases, such as gastritis and gastric ulcer, and it is the gold standard. So, gastroscopy, can find the change of gastric mucosa, there is no congestion, edema, erosion, even ulcer, tumor.
For gastric biopsy process, especially for gastric mucosal lesions have certain doubts, for example, there are abnormal changes in the mucosa under gastroscopy, biopsies will be selected, especially for gastric tumors, and it is the gold standard for the diagnosis of gastric tumors.

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