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Dr. Henry Joseph Venbrux
Pathologist
Dr. Henry Venbrux is a pathologist practicing in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Dr. Venbrux is a doctor who specializes in the study of bodily fluids and tissues. As a pathologist, Dr. Venbrux can help your primary care doctor make a diagnosis about your medical condition. Dr. Venbrux may perform a tissue biopsy to determine if a patient has cancer, practice genetic testing, and complete a number of laboratory examinations. Pathologists can also perform autopsies which can determine a persons cause of death and gain information about genetic progression of a disease.
Dr. Henry Joseph Venbrux
- Camp Hill, Pennsylvania
- University of Utah School of Medicine
- Accepting new patients
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Prostate pathology report
When your prostate was biopsied, the samples taken were studied under the microscope by a specialized doctor with many years of training called *a pathologist*. The pathologist READ MORE
When your prostate was biopsied, the samples taken were studied under the microscope by a specialized doctor with many years of training called *a pathologist*. The pathologist sends your doctor a report that gives a diagnosis for each sample taken. Information in this report will be used to help manage your care. The questions and answers that follow are meant to help you understand medical language you might find in the pathology report from your prostate biopsy. What does it mean if my biopsy report mentions the word core? The most common type of prostate biopsy is a core needle biopsy. For this procedure, the doctor inserts a thin, hollow needle into the prostate gland. When the needle is pulled out it removes a small cylinder of prostate tissue called a *core*. This is often repeated several times to sample different areas of the prostate. Your pathology report will list each core separately by a number (or letter) assigned to it by the pathologist, with each core (biopsy sample) having its own diagnosis. If cancer or some other problem is found, it is often not in every core, so you need to look at the diagnoses for all of the cores to know what is going on with you. What is prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia (PIN)? In this condition, there are changes in how the prostate gland cells look under the microscope, but the abnormal cells don't look like they are growing into other parts of the prostate (like cancer cells would).
