Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: More cores, more hematomas?

In Vivo

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 703-705

  Zagouri, Flora ^a   Gounaris, Antonia ^a   Liakou, Paraskevi ^a   Chrysikos, Dimosthenis ^a   Flessas, Ioannis ^a   Bletsa, Garifalia ^a   Giannakopoulou, Georgia ^a   Michalopoulos, Nikolaos V ^a   Saholeas, Panagiotis ^a   Zografos, George C ^a   Sergentanis, Theodoros N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Breast; Cores; Hematoma; Mammotome; Vacuum assisted breast biopsy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BIOPSY TECHNIQUE; BREAST BIOPSY; BREAST LESION; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; ULTRASOUND; VACUUM ASSISTED BREAST BIOPSY;

EID: 79960634112     PISSN: 0258851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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