Patent ID: 7758601

Claim:
A method for taking and examining tissue samples in a surgical procedure, the method comprising: systemically administering a marker orally or by injection; laying a core needle with a lateral sampling window in altered tissue from inside a living organism; taking a first sample set of tissue samples systematically around the core needle; examining the first sample set for at least one parameter so that at least one tissue alteration that may be present is recognized or measured, wherein the at least one parameter to be examined is supplied or imparted to the altered tissue via the marker, which concentrates itself in the tissue alteration, the examining being performed after the first sample set is taken but while the surgical procedure is still occurring and while the core needle remains in the living organism; and taking additional tissue samples from inside the living organism and, while the surgical procedure is still occurring and while the core needle remains in the living organism, examining the additional tissue samples outside the living organism, the additional tissue samples taken from a location adjacent wherever alterations are recognized in the first sample set, wherein the taking and examining of the additional tissue samples is continued sufficiently long until no more tissue alterations are found by the examining.