A needle biopsy is often used on tumors that your doctor can feel through your skin, such as suspicious breast lumps and enlarged lymph nodes. When combined with an imaging procedure, such as X-ray, needle biopsy can be used to collect cells from a suspicious area that can't be felt through the skin. Needle biopsy procedures include: 1  Fine-needle aspiration. 2  During fine-needle aspiration, a long, thin needle is inserted into the suspicious area.
The Purple People Eater. Single by Sheb Wooley. The Purple People Eater is a novelty song written and performed by Sheb Wooley, which reached no. 1 in the Billboard pop charts in 1958 from June 9 to July 14, and reached no. 12 overall in the UK singles chart.
Brother Iz's song was popularized on an episode of ER, I believe on the event of the death of the Dr. Mark Green character. Brother Iz was a gentle giant of a Hawaiian singer who died at age 38 in 1997.