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Diagnostics
US-guided vacuum-assisted biopsies used as alternative to diagnostic surgery
August 11th, 2005
Researchers examined the efficacy of ultrasound (US)-guided vacuum-assisted biopsies as an alternative to diagnostic surgery. In a recent article published in the Journal de Radiologie, scientists in France conducted a study "to assess US-guided vacuum-assisted biopsies in the diagnosis of suspicious sonographic breast lesions after non-diagnostic core needle biopsies (CNB)." "Retrospective study of 42 females with suspicious breast lesions at US. CNB previously performed were non-diagnostic. Because of the larger sample size, vacuum-assisted biopsies were performed, instead of surgical biopsy," explained E. Carpentier and colleagues, Hopital...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-08-11)
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