Extract the number of biopsies taken from the histology report
Source:R/Basic_EndoPathExtractors.R
HistolNumbOfBx.Rd
This extracts the number of biopsies taken from the pathology report. This is usually from the Macroscopic description column. It collects everything from the regex [0-9]1,2.0,3 to whatever the string boundary is (z).
See also
Other Histology specific cleaning functions:
HistolBxSize()
,
HistolTypeAndSite()