Total surgical removal of tissue to be examined.
Removal of an entire suspected lesion for microscopic examination.
The complete removal of a lymph node, often involving the extraction of the most suspicious-looking node, is a procedure commonly performed for diagnostic purposes. This process entails eliminating the entirety of the lymph node of concern in order to conduct further testing and analysis.
An excisional biopsy is a procedure where an entire region of affected tissue, along with a surrounding margin of healthy tissue, is removed for microscopic examination in a lab.