Breast Cancer
Combined image guidance can be done with reduced biopsy weights
Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 3rd, 2004
"When mammography detects a nonpalpable lesion, the surgeons may be called upon to establish a diagnosis. Various techniques are currently employed," scientists in England report.
"We describe a technique, which can be used both for diagnostic and for therapeutic procedures. The technique essentially involves localizing the tip of a guide-wire, placed under mammographic guidance, with ultrasound scanning. This minimizes many of the problems encountered with wire-guided excision," wrote S.R.C. Benson and...
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