Nonpalpable lesions in the augmented breast: preoperative localization.
Special compression views of the breast were used to detect suspect lesions in eight women who had undergone augmentation mammoplasty. Hook-wire localization with the use of these views proved safe and accurate for preoperative localization in these women, one of whom had a very small cancer.
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St Luke's Regional Medical Center, Boise, ID.
Kopans
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McCarthy
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Hart
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D001940:Breast / Q000601:surgery*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods*; D010173:Palpation; D019736:Prostheses and Implants