Computed tomography-guided needle localization of suspicious breast lesions.
Non-palpable breast lesions, suspicious for carcinoma, are usually localized prior to biopsy using standard mammographic techniques. We report two patients in whom computed tomography was used to localize suspicious non-palpable breast lesions that could not be readily localized using standard mammographic techniques.
Perdue
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Department of Surgery, National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, MD 20889-5000.
Galbo
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Ghosh
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D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed