RT Book, Section
A1 Stack, Rand
A1 Lerner, Arthur
A2 Kuerer, Henry M.
SR Print(0)
ID 6410831
T1 Chapter 29. Stereotactic Breast Biopsy
T2 Kuerer's Breast Surgical Oncology
YR 2010
FD 2010
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 978-0-07-160178-8
LK accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6410831
RD 2024/04/19
AB Minimally  invasive  breast  biopsies  are  rapidly  replacing  open  surgical  biopsy.  Percutaneous  breast  biopsy  can  be  performed  with  several  possible  guidance  technologies.  Other  chapters  in  this  book  describe  techniques  for  ultrasound-guided  minimally  invasive  biopsy  of  lesions  detected  with  ultrasound,  and  for  percutaneous  biopsy  of  palpable  breast  lesions  based  upon  palpation.  Stereotactic  breast  biopsy  is  a  minimally  invasive  technique  for  the  sampling  of  nonpalpable  breast  lesions  detected  on  mammography.1,2  If  the  lesion  is  only  visualized  on  one  imaging  modality,  that  modality  should  be  used  for  guidance  during  the  biopsy  procedure.  In  cases  where  the  lesion  is  visualized  by  more  than  1  imaging  modality,  the  modality  utilized  for  guiding  the  biopsy  device  should  be  the  modality  expected  to  afford  the  least  complicated  biopsy.  Stereotactic  breast  biopsy  technology  was  introduced  into  the  United  States  by  Dr.  Kambiz  Dowlat,  a  surgeon  at  Rush  University  Medical  College,  in  the  late  1980s  (Fig.  29-1).3