Ultrasound (US)-guided breast biopsy has become the main method for diagnosing breast pathology, and it has a high diagnostic accuracy, approaching that of open surgical biopsy. However, methods for confirming adequate lesion retrieval after US-guided biopsy are relatively limited and false-negative results are unavoidable. Determining imaging-pathology concordance after US-guided biopsy is ess...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous, vacuum-assisted, large-gauge core needle biopsy (VACNB) provides an alternative to open surgical biopsy as an initial diagnostic tool for breast lesions, yet rates of underestimating malignant diagnoses remain sufficiently high to warrant surgical biopsy in some cases. The current study was performed to determine if the Breast Lesion Excision System (BLES) provides a fe...

BACKGROUND Preoperative diagnosis of breast cancer is a standard of care. We conducted a population-based study to determine the factors associated with the use of percutaneous needle biopsy to diagnose breast cancer in Ontario. METHODS We identified a total of 3644 women who underwent breast tissue sampling (percutaneous needle biopsy or surgical excision) that yielded a diagnosis of cancer ...

BACKGROUND A 2% threshold, traditionally used as a level above which breast biopsy recommended, has been generalized to all patients from several specific situations analyzed in the literature. We use a sequential decision analytic model considering clinical and mammography features to determine the optimal general threshold for image guided breast biopsy and the sensitivity of this threshold t...

Breast is an uncommon site of extra nodal lymphoma accounting for 2.2% all lymphomas. B cell lymphomas are more common than T types. The most subtype Diffuse Large Cell Lymphoma. very challenging to diagnose as it has nonspecific clinical and radiological features. We report a rare case primary in 20-year-old female. It was misdiagnosed abscess on ultrasound suppurative mastitis fine needle asp...

BACKGROUND Percutaneous needle biopsy has the potential to provide a preoperative diagnosis of breast cancer, which helps to optimize surgical planning; however, its use remains an area of unexplained clinical variation. The purposes of this study were to perform a statewide assessment of diagnostic biopsy methods for women diagnosed with breast cancer and to evaluate the impact of biopsy metho...

abstract introduction:   it is more than 60 years that fine needle aspiration (fna) has been used for diagnosing palpable breast masses and has been known as an effective method for several years in europe. in this study, we compared the diagnostic accuracy of fna with open biopsy in tabriz and shiraz, iran. material and methods: we studied 100 patients with breast lesions in tabriz imam khomei...