Traditionally, punch biopsy sites have been sutured, but the benefit of this practice has never been scientifically demonstrated. In this prospective, randomized, method-comparison study ...

A simple and minimally invasive skin biopsy could help diagnose Parkinson ... Each person underwent three 3mm skin punch biopsies taken from the neck, the knee and the ankle.

Figure 1: Injection of local anesthetic (lidocaine) subcutaneously underneath the marked biopsy site of the skin of a dog. The punch biopsy technique is the most frequently used cutaneous biopsy ...