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Retrieval of Lost Microcalcifications During Stereotactic Vacuum-Assisted Core Biopsy

Paul D. Friedman1, Linda M. Sanders, Christine Menendez, Lester Kalisher and Gina Petrillo

1 All authors: Department of Radiology, Saint Barnabas Medical Center, 94 Old Short Hills Rd., Livingston, NJ 07039.



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Fig. 1A. 76-year-old woman with calcifications in inferior aspect of right breast. Right mediolateral oblique magnification mammogram shows coarse calcifications (arrow) in inferior aspect of breast.

 


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Fig. 1B. 76-year-old woman with calcifications in inferior aspect of right breast. Magnified image of specimen radiograph from contents of debris canister shows additional pieces of tissue with calcifications from biopsy site.

 


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Fig. 2A. 78-year-old woman with cluster of microcalcifications in superior aspect of right breast. Right mediolateral oblique magnification mammogram shows cluster of microcalcifications (arrow) in superior aspect of right breast.

 


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Fig. 2B. 78-year-old woman with cluster of microcalcifications in superior aspect of right breast. Specimen radiograph of debris canister contents shows substantial portion of biopsied calcifications.

 


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Fig. 3A. 47-year-old woman with cluster of microcalcifications in superior aspect of right breast. Right true lateral magnification mammogram shows cluster of microcalcifications (arrow) in superior aspect of right breast.

 


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Fig. 3B. 47-year-old woman with cluster of microcalcifications in superior aspect of right breast. Initial specimen radiograph shows portion of cluster of calcifications biopsied.

 


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Fig. 3C. 47-year-old woman with cluster of microcalcifications in superior aspect of right breast. Specimen radiograph from contents of debris canister shows additional pieces of tissue from biopsied area with calcifications.

 


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Fig. 4A. 52-year-old woman with cluster of indeterminate calcifications in superior aspect of right breast. Right mediolateral oblique magnification mammogram shows cluster of indeterminate calcifications (arrow) in superior aspect of right breast.

 


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Fig. 4B. 52-year-old woman with cluster of indeterminate calcifications in superior aspect of right breast. Initial specimen radiograph shows multiple pieces of tissue without calcifications.

 


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Fig. 4C. 52-year-old woman with cluster of indeterminate calcifications in superior aspect of right breast. Magnified image of specimen radiograph from contents of debris canister shows calcifications to be present in single piece of tissue.

 

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