Biopsy

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23:44 Aug 12, 2005

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Medical - Medical: Instruments

English term or phrase: Biopsy

"device enables a thin split thickness skin biopsy to be processed to produce a cell population for immediate delivery onto a prepared wound surface".

My question: what is the difference between "skin biopsy" and "skin graft" ? How this term should be translated into another language : Biopsy or Graft

Teresa Goscinska KudoZ activity Questions: 431 (none open) (12 without valid answers) (6 closed without grading) Answers: 1614
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Explanation:
a biopsy is the examination of tissues or liquids from the living body to determine the existence or cause of a disease

a graft is the tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

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according to the context you provided, I believe it should be \"graft\"

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Enza Longo
Canada
Local time: 20:42

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Thanks a lot.
This is what I thought.
however why they use a term biopsy in the original document all the time?
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Enza Longo

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tissue sample/specimen

Elena Petelos

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Enza Longo
Canada
Local time: 20:42
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4

Grading comment

Thanks a lot.
This is what I thought.
however why they use a term biopsy in the original document all the time?

10 hrs confidence:

peer agreement (net): +5

biopsy tissue sample/specimen

Explanation:
Although the question is graded, I think this should be translated as tissue sample (specimen), since this is a reference to the sample of tissue taken to be processed, and the device used for the removal. They have probably used "biopsy" to emphasize the capabilities of the device.
Yes, a split thickness graft is a more common term, however, at this stage they -just- harvesting and then processing the sample (tissue culture follows) and then transplantating, rendering the "generated" cells a "graft" or even an "autograft".
For a definition of "autograft":
Tissue taken from one part of an individual organism's body and then moved or transplanted to another location within that same organism. Rejection is rarely (if ever) a problem since the donor and recipient are the same individual. Skin transplants are a common example. Autografts are also used when bone marrow is harvested from an individual and stored for later use. This marrow tissue is transplanted back into the donor to replace tissue destroyed during chemotherapy. Source : PhRMA Genomics
http://www.genomecanada.ca/GCglossaire/glossaire/index.asp

And a similar device to the one your text mentions:
ReCell® is an innovative single-use medical device for harvesting autologous skin cells. Developed as an 'off the shelf' kit, ReCell® enables a thin split thickness biopsy, taken at the time of procedure, to be processed into an immediate cell population for delivery onto the wound surface.
http://www.recell.info/hc_about.asp
http://www.cellspray.info/one/05_faq.asp#07

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Note added at 10 hrs 49 mins (2005-08-13 10:34:00 GMT) Post-grading
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Oh and apologies for the typo: \"they *are* -just- harvesting. :-)

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Note added at 10 hrs 53 mins (2005-08-13 10:38:28 GMT) Post-grading
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One last note, judging by your last question, your device allows to bypass -or at least \"speed up\" the t-c stage, by immediate processing.
Similar to ReCell.

Elena Petelos
United Kingdom
Local time: 01:42
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Greek
PRO pts in category: 28

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