Use of vacuum assisted biopsy for non-palpable breast lesions
Journal Title: Αρχεία Ελληνικής Ιατρικής - Year 2006, Vol 23, Issue 4
Abstract
OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of vacuum assisted breast biopsy in patients with non-palpable breast lesions. METHOD Patients examined in the Breast Unit of the University of Athens, 1st Department of Propedeutic Surgery and found to have non-palpable lesions that mammographically scored Bi Rads 3 or 4 were included in the study. RESULTS Thirty-two patients underwent vacuum assisted breast biopsy. In most (62.5%) the lesions were multiformatted microcalcifications, in 11 (34.3%) they were small nodules and in one the lesion was a nodule that contained microcalcifications (3.1%). In situ ductal carcinoma was the diagnosis in 4 (12.5%) patients, 1 patient (3.25) suffered from invasive carcinoma, 3 from adenosis (9.3%), 1 (3.1%) from atypical epithelial hyperplasia and the rest (n=23, 71.8%) from benign lesions. Complications were present in 3.1% of the cases. CONCLUSIONS Vacuum assisted biopsy of non-palpable breast lesions is a procedure which is easy to perform, and offers high sensitivity, specificity and safety in the diagnosis of early breast cancer.
Authors and Affiliations
G. ZOGRAFOS, D. KOULOCHERI, E. MESSARIS, P. ANTONAKIS, N. PARARAS, K. PAPADIMITRIOU, A. MARIOLIS, I. BRAMIS
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