Stereotactic Vacuum-Assisted Breast Biopsy Is Not a Therapeutic Procedure Even When All Mammographically Found Calcifications Are Removed: Analysis of 4,086 Procedures
Silvia Penco, Stefania Rizzo, Anna Carla Bozzini, Antuono Latronico, Simona Menna, Enrico Cassano, and Massimo Bellomi
AJR 2010; 195:1255-1260
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VABB may not be considered a therapeutic procedure, even in the case of complete removal of microcalcifications.
However, a complete removal of microcalcifications may result in low rates of underestimation of malignancy and may consequently increase the diagnostic accuracy of the diagnostic procedure
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