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Is this a made-up word? - Teardrop

Posted: Sep 22, 2010

I'm doing a hot nodes dissection, and the doc is using a word that sounds like MODERIFY. Here's the sentence:

Dr. Patterson performed specimen ____| QA MARKER: 358 |____ count, and this demonstrated the biopsy clip in the mass to be squarely centered within the biopsy specimen.

"The radiologist performed specimen _______ count, and this demonstrated the biopsy clip in the mass to be squarely centered within the biopsy specimen."

By the way, he has a delightful accent, from West Virginia, I believe.

Thanks in advance!

in my stedman's path and lab medicine word book - cindy

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the only words close to this are: modified, modifier, modifying gene

Hope this helps.

hot nodes dissection/gamma counter SN - Roma

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This is what they are doing, radioscopic sentinel lymph node biopsy to identify hot nodes.

Hot nodes being ones that show radiation emissions on a gamma counter. However I cannot find anything with this word. There is a SN mapping guide which probably has this somewhere.

The patient desired MammoSite Radiation Therapy; therefore, the sentinel lymph node biopsy was incorporated into the procedure.

Two sentinel lymph nodes were identified, one was blue and hot and the other was just hot.

Two sentinel lymph nodes were identified, one was blue and hot and the other was just hot. These were sent to Pathology for touch prep. Adequate hemostasis was obtained.

Sorry I have not found your word, and I am from the south, LOL, it could actually be modifer, I suppose. But I sure learned a lot here while looking for you.

Good luck, part of radiation diagnosis and new things for cancer detection and treatment in the lymph nodes around cancerous tumors now.

sentinel lymph node biopsy/hot nodes biopsy - Roma

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Oh by the way, one reason this is so interesting to me is that they just did this with my older brother. The found a mass in his left lung, upper lobe. They remoced this but then did this biopsy of the lymph nodes.

Sorry I got so involved in your word. The gamma or geiger counter emits the count of the radioactive blue dye that the use.

Therefor the term hot, that first, sentinel lymph node they hope if they remove it the cancer will not continue to spread.

Are you sure about the word count after - the blank? When s/m

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doing these type of procedures, most often the dictator will say "performed specimen mammography" to insure clip is in the proper location, etc. Just a thought.

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