Published in:
01-10-2010 | Poster presentation
Malignant microcalcification: prediction of excision margins by separating calcified and noncalcified core biopsies
Authors:
H Cain, A Mooney, J Westgarth, T Fasih, D Browell, K Clark, D Hemming, L Lunt
Published in:
Breast Cancer Research
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Special Issue 3/2010
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Excerpt
Suspicious microcalcification is investigated by vacuum-assisted core biopsy. Many patients, in whom malignancy is diagnosed, go on to have breast-conserving surgery where positive resection margins require re-operation. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is an increased risk of positive margins when malignancy is identified in cores without microcalcification. …