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Open Access
01.12.2015 | Oral presentation
Is surgical diagnostic excision always necessary for solid lesions with atypia?
verfasst von:
Nisha Sharma, Rebecca Millican-Slater, Eldo Verghese
Erschienen in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Sonderheft 1/2015
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Excerpt
As part of diagnostic work for radiological abnormalities seen in the breast, there has been an increase in use of vacuum-assisted biopsies for diagnosis. This allows more tissue to be sampled and therefore leads to a greater degree of diagnostic accuracy. In addition to diagnosis, in some centres the same procedure has also been used for removal of the entire lesion--vacuum-assisted excision (VAE). This is sometimes offered in place of a diagnostic surgical excision in cases of B3 lesions. We wanted to examine whether VAE can be a safe alternative for B3 lesion that show atypia. …