126. HISTOPATHOLOGICAL EVALUATION OF GYNAECOLOGICAL BIOPSIES FROM PATIENTS ATTENDING THE BRAITHWAITE MEMOEIAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL RIVER STATE
1.1Background of Study
Hippocrates who lived from 460 – 370 BC described different types of biopsy, referring to cancer as carcinos meaning crab or crayfish in Greek (The History of Cancer, 2014), the name which is generated from the appearance of the cut surface of a solid malignant tumour (Moss, 1989). The oldest description of biopsies and their treatment is traceable to ancient Egypt and dates back to 1600 BC (Sudhakar, 2009).
Gynaecological biopsies are not rare...