Sometimes, however, those criteria do not allow a conclusive diagnosis to be made, and a skin biopsy is taken to be examined under the microscope.

Conventional angiography provided the conclusive diagnosis of moyamoya disease in most cases and should be performed before any surgical considerations.

There was too much swelling on the first X-rays for the doctors to make a conclusive diagnosis, and they waited until today to make another examination.

House puts Powell through diagnostic rigors, but the team is unable to come up with a conclusive diagnosis, and Powell's health continues to deteriorate.

The destruction visited on the megalithic sites of the Medway valley during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries makes conclusive diagnosis difficult.

A conclusive diagnosis is made via histology, as part of a pathology report made during or after surgery.

Electron microscopy provided a conclusive diagnosis of ECL cell tumours in two cases.

We've become accustomed to doctors using specialized blood tests or other expensive laboratory tests to help them make a conclusive diagnosis.

"You were afraid that if you waited for a conclusive diagnosis, she'd be snatched up by another group of viatical investors."

However none of this tells us much about the still large number of cases where a conclusive prenatal diagnosis isn't made.