PATHOLOGY ASSOCIATES of LEXINGTON P.A. at LEXINGTON MEDICAL CENTER

For patients in central South Carolina, closeness and convenience of these services is an important consideration: time-wise, the following services are most quickly obtained (with respect to services in a hospital) at Lexington Medical Center (LMC) than at any other hospital. For any patients who might fly in, that hospital is by far nearest to the airport and with many motels very close by (Zip code 29169-4810).

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BREAST PROGRAM:

One of the most frightening things in a woman's life is when they suspect an abnormality in a breast and immediately worry about their risk of breast cancer. Make one call to 803-791-2521 or 800-635-0858 and leave your message and your return-the-phone-call contact numbers for program director, Kelly Jeffcoat, R.N.; and get a result in 5 days or less thru her arrangements with the doctors, below (superficial FNA section).
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OUTPATIENT LIVER BIOPSIES:  

Radiologist performed @ LMC; no inpatient stays; almost-pain-free; first procedure attempt gets a specific, accurate diagnosis 99.99% of cases because (1) we routinely & aggressively obtain your illness  details from your referring doctor and (2) we obtain a tube of your blood for any decisive testing needed to help speed to the correct diagnosis.

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DEEP FINE NEEDLE BIOPSIES of TUMORS:

90 to 95% incidence of accurate diagnosis on the first attempt; radiologist performed (Lexington Radiology Associates, P. A.), pathologist and cytotech assistance; preliminary diagnosis to radiologist usually within an hour. Our success rate is related to our being "at the ready" at all times with no real attempt to schedule with radiology AND having the active, in-the-procedure-room, involvement of experienced pathologists with either cytotechnologists or cytoprep techs. Such helps to assure smoothness and lack of frustration to the procedure and on-the-spot, non-microscopic reckoning of the adequacy of the specimen.

Lexington Medical Center,

schedule procedure:
803-791-2461
Lon Hamby, M.D. ; John Haynes, M.D. ; Chuck Davis, M.D. ; Perry Edenfield, Charles Hood, M.D.; Layne Clemenz, M.D.; Ed Pia, M.D.; David Knight, M.D.; Beth Siroty-Smith, M.D.; Chris McCarty, M.D.; Keith McGuire, M.D.; & Alex Pertile, M. D., and others.
I-26 @ SC #378, 2720 Sunset Blvd., West Columbia, S.C.

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PROSTATE, NEEDLE BIOPSIES:  

From between 1991-2004, our group provided this pathology interpretation service to all area Columbia urology groups (but currently only to Dr. Morrow & the radiologists @ LMC) as a system of maximally oriented prostate biopsies which can be precisely subsequently coordinated with endorectal-coil MRI or MRS staging. All study and most treatment methods also are available at Lexington Medical Center. This highly oriented, highly correlated process is thought to be unique in the USA and helps to maximize staging accuracy for an accurate choice of treatment modalities, if needed. Every effort is made to get the diagnosis to the urologist's office the next weekday after we receive the biopsies.

And, we are available for second-opinion services on your biopsies diagnosed at other labs or even in our lab. If the second opinion is to come from the rest of our group on a case diagnosed in our lab, there will be no additional charge. We do make a charge for our opinion on biopsies originally diagnosed elsewhere. It will help immensely if you can precisely inform us of the dilemma that gives rise to the desire for other opinions. Call the above (top of this page) LMC phone number and/or have the slides sent to that above address.

a. Columbia Urology Associates, P.A.,

patient referral:
803-254-4591
We still get rare specimens from John Rawl, M.D.; 
downtown Columbia, S.C. (doctors office tower next to Baptist Hospital.); and with office hours in Newberry, S.C. and near Richland Mem. Hosp.

b. L. U. A., P.A.
Though in our direct neighborhood, we seldom get any biopsies from them; they merged in late 2011 with a N. C. group and are focused in that economic axis.

c. Richard C. Morrow, M.D.
Lexington Medical Park suite 301
(I-26 @ SC # 378; adjoining Lexington Medical Center Hospital)
2728 Sunset Blvd.
West Columbia, S. C.
803-926-0507

d. C. U. P.
Though in our direct neighborhood, we seldom get any biopsies from them; they merged in summer of 2011 with a N. C. group and are focused in that economic axis.

e. Lexington Radiology: (Drs. John Haynes & Ed Pia)
These two radiologists perform these for an occasional primary care doc and a urologist. As with all who biopsy the prostate, it is done through a wand through the rectum. Now that biopsy protocols indicate 10-12 separate biopsies at one sitting, the radiologists began injecting a pain-numbing prostate nerve block just prior to biopsies. Most biopsying docs have the patient start antibiotics the day before biopsies (Dr. gives prescription for Floxin 400mg twice per day for 4-5 days or Cipro 250-500 mg twice per day for 4-5 days). One hour before the procedure, the patient cleans out the rectum with such as a Fleets phospho enema (you can buy without prescription).

Schedule procedure:
803-791-2461@ Lexington Medical Center
I-26 @ SC #378, West Columbia, S.C.

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GASTROINTESTINAL:

A cooperative relationship geared toward punctual scheduling of procedures and rapid and accurate interpretation and reporting of any biopsies, in a very close clinico-pathologic relationship.