Encircling guidewire facilitates complete excision of image-localized breast lesions

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 186, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 413-415

  Kaufman, Cary S ^a,b   Jacobson, Leslie ^b   Bachman, Barbara ^b   Kaufman, Lauren B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Bellingham Breast Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Breast biopsy; Breast cancer; Encircling; Guidewire; Localization

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST LESION; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENCIRCLING GUIDEWIRE; EXCISION; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGING SYSTEM; MULTIPLE CANCER; NEEDLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUNCTURE; STANDARD; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT; SURGICAL PATIENT; BREAST TUMOR; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY;

BREAST NEOPLASMS; FEMALE; HUMANS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 0142213203     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-9610(03)00273-3     Document Type: Article

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