Breast skin calcifications: localization with a stereotactic device.
Calcifications that lie within the skin of the breast may be mistakenly thought to be intraparenchymal on mammograms if they are projected over breast tissue in two views. A simple, reliable technique was developed to determine calcification location. It uses a commercially available stereotactic localization device and has been used successfully in six patients.
Linden
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Department of Radiology, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC 27710.
Sullivan
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D001941:Breast Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002114:Calcinosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods*; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation*