Stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast biopsy is not a therapeutic procedure even when all mammographically found calcifications are removed: Analysis of 4,086 procedures

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 195, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1255-1260

  Penco, Silvia ^a   Rizzo, Stefania ^a   Bozzini, Anna Carla ^a   Latronico, Antuono ^a   Menna, Simona ^a   Cassano, Enrico ^a   Bellomi, Massimo ^a,b  

^a EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Breast cancer; Microcalcifications; Vacuum assisted biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST CALCIFICATION; BREAST CARCINOMA; BREAST HYPERPLASIA; CANCER SURGERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAMMOGRAPHY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STEREOTACTIC BIOPSY; STEREOTACTIC VACUUM ASSISTED BREAST BIOPSY; TUMOR VOLUME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; BREAST DISEASES; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CALCINOSIS; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; HUMANS; MAMMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; VACUUM;

EID: 78649697882     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: 15463141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/AJR.10.4208     Document Type: Article

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