I had a FNB, the result were inconclusive. But I have to say I knew I wasn't going to get an answer from this procedure during the procedure. I could tell the physician was not very experienced at it, he seemed unsure of himself and afterwards while trying to get the specimen to the slides there was confusion between him and the nurse on number of slides, type of slides, and the solution to be added to the slides. I didn't feel comfortable with him and think that if a more experienced physician would have done the procedure I could have had conclusive results because the mass was huge, hard to miss. I don't blame him, everybody has to learn and start somewhere, but there are other questions I have after the procedure, that is for another thread smile Did go under to have a frozen biopsy of area later (different physician) which turned into A LOT more and I woke up with new news and in a whole different world!


AGE 38 10-2012 thru 3-2012 swollen lymph node,painful jaw and ear,2 antibiotics,X-ray,CAT scan,needle biopsy,scope, no answers
3-4-13 tonsillectomy and selective neck dissection, DX R tonsil SCC,METS to 1 lymph node,BOT,HPV+, stage IV
TX 35 RAD,3 chemo cisplatin/Taxol started 4-8-13
rad end 5-29-13