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3/7/2015 1 Advances in Localizing Nodes and Tumors and Who Should Do It? Breast ‘Why’ and ‘How’ of Image-guided Localization of Breast Lesions
Bonnie N. Joe, MD, PhD
Chief, Women’s Imaging University of California, San Francisco
UCSF Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging
Message
- Image-guided wire localization is
designed to assist the surgeon in successful resection of the target lesion and promote conservation of normal breast tissue.
In the next 15 minutes….
- Historical background
- Mammographic localization
– Freehand, Grid techniques
- US and MRI localization
- Recent Developments
– Radioactive Seed, US-visible clips
Before Wire Localization
- 1960s & 1970s Surgical excision based
- n palpation
- Management of nonpalpable suspicious
mammographic lesions was problematic
- Surgeon would often resect a large
portion of breast quadrant based on mammographic report
- Multiple benign lesions excised for