Stereotactic Directional Vacuum-Assisted Breast Biopsy
Stereotactic Directional Vacuum-Assisted Breast Biopsy
Stereotactic directional vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (ST DVAB) is a standard biopsy
 procedure for suspicious findings on mammograms in Western countries for more than 10 years
 [1-3], it has replaced the needle localization (NLOC) excisional biopsy for the lesions alike
 and was reported to feature a high sensitivity, very low delayed false-negative rate (less
 than 2%)[4,5]. Moreover, it causes less scarring, less psychologic stress to patients and
 less morbidity compared with needle localization excisional biopsy [6,7]. However, its
 sensitivity, accuracy has seldom been reported in Asian countries [8] , since most Asian
 women have different breast parenchyma pattern, different breast cancer prevalence.
 Therefore, we retrospectively reviewed outcomes of the two groups of patients receiving
 either ST DVAB or NLOC excisional biopsy, trying to investigate if ST DVAB can be an
 effective alternative to NLOC excisional biopsy in our country.
Inclusion Criteria:

 -  The indication for ST DVAB was lesions with suspicious nature for malignancy seen on
 mammograms which biopsy is necessitated for tissue proof, or probably benign or benign
 appearing lesions seen on mammograms but patients or clinicians requested biopsy

 Exclusion Criteria:

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