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).
Arguments
- inputString
The input text to process
- regString
The keyword to remove and to stop at in the regex
See also
Other Histology specific cleaning functions:
HistolBxSize()
,
HistolTypeAndSite()