1.   All the children had physiology of their upper tract involvement clarified by antroduodenal motility studies and in some cases by full thickness surgical biopsies.

2.   Before the introduction of steroid treatment, surgical biopsy without the decompression afforded by removal of the tumour carried a prohibitive morbidity and mortality.

3.   For these reasons, the PSA often requires follow-up testing with ultrasound, X-rays and a surgical biopsy, which are usually outpatient procedures.

4.   In Germany, researchers claim MRI reduces the number of surgical biopsies needed to make diagnoses.

5.   No hospitalization, no surgical biopsy and no further treatment would be necessary.

6.   Such people required additional X-rays and, in some cases, surgical biopsies, to determine that no cancer was present.

7.   The test, called an Alexagram, can offer women an alternative to other diagnostic procedures before surgical biopsy, the company said.

8.   A device using skin sensors may someday reduce the number of surgical biopsies done to see whether abnormalities within the breast are breast cancers, a researcher said Friday.

9.   Those women can either get a surgical biopsy, or wait an anxious six months for a repeat Pap.