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Combined image guidance can be done with reduced biopsy weights.

Women's Health Weekly

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2004 JUN 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers report a new breast biopsy technique, combined image guidance (CIG) that uses a guide-wire placed under mammographic guidance.

"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 colleagues, New Cross Hospital, Royal Woverhampton NHS Trust.

"We conducted a prospective non-randomized study using CIG for patients undergoing diagnostic (n=24) and therapeutic biopsy (n=13). We found that significantly smaller diagnostic ...

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