Ultrasound-guided biopsy was found to take significantly less time than prone stereotactic biopsy in every aspect of procedure duration. Mean total procedure time, room time, and physician time in minutes were 26.7 ± 8.2 versus 47.5 ± 9.4 (p < 0.01), 23.1 ± 8.5 versus 36.5 ± 9.2 (p <...
Unfortunately, current equipment for MR-guided biopsy is better suited for intervention at 1.5T due to the danger of heating titanium co-axial sleeves and large susceptibility artifacts. We evaluated a dedicated 3T breast biopsy set that uses plastic coaxial needles to overcome these problems....
I had them removed in 2001 and my doctor would not give me the implants after explant. Also I have had lymph node biopsy and at least two of my lymph nodes were full of silicone. I have little pea size nodules all over my right side where my breast implants were and no one can see...
Occasionally, microcalcifications and/or scar tissue may create sufficient uncertainty requiring additional investigations such as additional mammography views, ultrasound and needle biopsy. Patients should be made aware of the potentially higher likelihood of recall from screening, and the potentially ...
Since a female human cadaver with a breast tumor is difficult to obtain, we instead placed a standard breast biopsy clip to represent the core of the “pseudo tumor,” which was to be excised in our experiment. The breast tumor biopsy clip is a small metal (stainless steel or titanium) ...
Rahusen FD, Pijpers R, van Diest PJ, Bleichrodt RP, Torrenga H, Meijer S: The implementation of the sentinel node biopsy as a routine procedure for patients with breast cancer. Surgery. 2000, 128: 6-12. 10.1067/msy.2000.107229. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Veronesi U, Banfi A,...
Situations in which clips may constitute the physical target of the surgical procedure include non-palpable cancers, sites of tumors that were removed by percutaneous biopsy procedures, and tumors sites after neoadjuvant chemotherapy, espe- cially in the face of complete radiologic response. In the ...
Before starting NAC, commercially available titanium clips (UltraClip Dual Trigger Breast Tissue Marker, 17G × 10 cm Needle – Ribbon., C. R. Bard, Inc., NJ, USA) were used to mark the biopsy-proven metastatic axillary lymph node(s) under ultrasound guidance. Systemic treatment The ...
During surgery, the boundaries of the excision cavity were marked with titanium clips. At least level I–II axillary dissection was performed for 84 patients (84%) and 12 women (12%) underwent sentinel lymph node biopsy. For the remaining 4 cases (4%), operated on for pure ductal ...
previous surgery and/or radiotherapy to the ipsilateral breast; neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade, unilateral vs bilateral surgery, type of axillary surgery (none, sentinel node biopsy [SNB] or axillary node clearance [ANC]) and procedure type (mastecto...