single focus

English translation: single focal point

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English term or phrase:single focus
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Entered by: sara alnuaimi

18:59 Mar 5, 2013
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Medical - Medical (general) / with central cystic hemorrhage, high grade and single focus
English term or phrase: single focus
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Subject: breast cancer

The patient had an FNA which showed atypia. She then underwent an excisional biopsy on November 2012 and the final histology was that of a high-grade carcinosarcoma, 2 cm in size with central cystic hemorrhage, high grade and single focus. Margins negative but close and the closest margin was 2.8 mm, ER negative/PR positive at 60% and HER/neu negative by IHC.

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sara alnuaimi
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single focal point
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Sandra Borojevic
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single area/location?
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single focal point


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Example sentence(s):
  • What is focal point guided screening ... Single cell. FOV result. 4x scan of specimen area. 20x scan. FOV processors. Group. Thick .... 2nd Colposcopy & biopsy ...
  • duce the need for biopsies to confirm ... beams of ultrasound into one tiny point that can heat tissue to 56 degrees Celsius ... How to focus the focal point?
Sandra Borojevic
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Local time: 06:38
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Reference: single area/location?

Reference information:
PLOS ONE: Single Cell Profiling of Circulating Tumor Cells ...
www.plosone.org/.../info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0033...
by AA Powell - 2012 - Cited by 24 - Related articles
May 7, 2012 – In contrast, single cells from seven breast cancer cell lines were ... a single metastatic focus even though multiple foci are concurrently present.

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csn.cancer.org/node/249306
Nov 1, 2012 – One list was "the things I am scared of" (related to the cancer; ..... At that time it was "a single focus of cancer - too few cells to Gleason Score".

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focus - definition of focus in the Medical dictionary - by the Free ...
medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/focus
focus /fo·cus/ (fo´kus) pl. fo´ci [L.] 1. the point of convergence of light rays or sound waves. 2. the chief center of a morbid process.fo´cal ...

liz askew
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