Multicenter evaluation of the breast lesion excision system, a percutaneous, vacuum‐assisted, intact‐specimen breast biopsy device

Sie, Angela; C. Bryan, David; D. Gaines, Victor; K. Killebrew, Larry; H. Kim, Christine; C. Morrison, Carrie; R. Poller, William; Pat Romilly, A.; Schilling, Kathy; Sung, Janet

doi:10.1002/cncr.22090

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Multicenter evaluation of the breast lesion excision system, a percutaneous, vacuum‐assisted, intact‐specimen breast biopsy device

Published in Cancer • Jul 27, 2006

Authors:

Angela Sie

David C. Bryan

Victor D. Gaines

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Percutaneous, vacuum-assisted, large-gauge core needle biopsy (VACNB) provides an alternative to open surgical biopsy as an initial diagnostic tool for breast lesions, yet rates of underestimating malignant diagnoses remain sufficiently high to warrant surgical biopsy in some cases. The ...

Subject

Medicine

Biopsy

Lumpectomy

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