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Hooked‐wire‐directed breast biopsy and overpenetrated mammography
Author(s) -
Silverstein Melvin J.,
Gamagami Parvis,
Rosser Robert J.,
Gierson Eugene D.,
Colburn William J.,
Handel Neal,
Fingerhut Aaron G.,
Lewinsky Bernard S.,
Hoffman Robert S.,
Waisman James R.
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/1097-0142(19870215)59:4<715::aid-cncr2820590409>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - medicine , mammography , biopsy , breast biopsy , breast cancer , radiology , general surgery , cancer
Six hundred fifty‐three biopsies were performed for clinically occult, mammographically detected breast abnormalities. One hundred forty‐seven cancers (22.5%) were found. Eighty‐nine of those cancers (60.5%) were noninvasive. None of the in situ lesions had involved axillary lymph nodes. Of the 58 invasive cancers, only six (10.3%) had metastases to axillary nodes. Fifty‐four patients (36.7%) were treated by mastectomy while 93 patients (63.3%) were treated conservatively, 20 by biopsy only, and 73 by lumpectomy, axillary node dissection, and radiation therapy. Only four patients (0.7%) had significant complications. Cancer 59:715‐722, 1987.