Clip placement after sonographically guided percutaneous breast biopsy.
A simple and inexpensive technique for deployment of a metallic marker at the site of an ultrasound guided core breast biopsy is described. An illustrative case in which this technique was employed to mark the location of three biopsied lesions is presented.
Margolin
Frederick R
FR
Breast Health Center, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94118, USA.
Jacobs
Richard P
RP
Denny
Susan R
SR
Schrumpf
John D
JD
D000328:Adult; D001707:Biopsy, Needle / Q000379:methods; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D018226:Fibroadenoma / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods