First Clinical Experience Using Stereotactic Breast Biopsy Guided by 99mTc-Sestamibi

Methodological aspects of 99mTc-sestamibi guided biopsy in breast cancer

PURPOSE This review aims to discuss the methodological aspects of dedicated molecular breast imaging (MBI) using 99mTc-sestamibi as radiotracer to guide biopsy of occult or unclear breast lesions on mammography (MG) and ultrasound (US) that are suspicious on MBI (BI-RADS criteria 4 and 5), including its advantages, limitations and future clinical applications. METHODS Literature search was pe...

Digital breast tomosynthesis-guided biopsy: preliminary experience

Stereotactic-guided localisation before open biopsy of occult breast lesions

Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of stereotactic coal injection and wire localisation followed by excisional biopsy for occult breast lesions. Experimental design: Prospective study Setting: University Hospital Patients: Forty-five patients with abnormal mammographic findings out of 6543 women undergoing screening mammography. Patients with palpable or ultrasonographically detectable lesions...

Stereotactic vacuum-assisted breast biopsy: our experience and comparison with stereotactic automated needle biopsy.

OBJECTIVES To evaluate and compare the outcome of stereotactically guided percutaneous, directional, vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VAB) with the outcome of those performed with 14-gauge automated gun. METHODS Between January 2008 and January 2011, altogether 257 stereotactic biopsies were performed in our institute; 193 with the 14-gauge automated needle and 64 with a directional, vacuum-ass...

Prone table stereotactic breast biopsy.

The prone table machine is a mammographic X-ray system specially designed for use in the stereotactic localisation of breast abnormality. In this study, its clinical usefulness was investigated in terms of duration, success rate, complications, and patients' acceptance of the procedure. During a 5-month period, 79 patients attended the Kwong Wah Hospital for stereotactic-guided biopsy on the pr...