Preoperative roentgenographically guided percutaneous localization of occult breast lesions: three-year experience with 180 patients and description of a method
J. E. Meyer and D. B. Kopans
The identification of a suspicious occult breast lesion with mammography
should, in most instances, result in roentgenographically guided
localization followed by surgical excision. Over a three-year period, we
performed 180 roentgenographically guided preoperative localizations for
occult breast lesions, 32% (57/180) of which were malignant. Of the total,
there were 85 masses and 95 clustered microcalcifications. We prefer to use
a modified hookwire for lesion localization.
