title: Surgical use of breast ultrasound.
abstract: As surgeons become increasingly more comfortable in interpreting and using US to determine benignancy and malignancy of breast lesions, use of US-guided needle biopsy. US-guided lumpectomy, percutaneous excision of benign masses, and ablation of cancers will become routine.
authors.affiliation: Division of Breast Surgery, Hospital de la Santísima Trinidad, Paseo de Carmelitas, 74, Salamanca 37007, Spain.
authors.forename: Isabel T
authors.initials: IT
authors.lastname: Rubio
authors.forename: Ronda
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Henry-Tillman
authors.forename: V Suzanne
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Klimberg
mesh_terms: D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007430:Intraoperative Care; D011300:Preoperative Care; D025321:Surgery, Computer-Assisted; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary