Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 5 , Pages 385-387, September 2010

Use of a hemostasis introducer sheath to guide clip delivery during stereotactic directional vacuum-assisted breast biopsy when the biopsy system malfunctions

  • Jane Wang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Imaging, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Radiology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Department of Medical Imaging, National Taiwan University Hospital, 7 Chung-Shan South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan. Tel.: +886 2 23123456 65565; fax: +886 2 23224552.
    • ,
  • Chun-Ju Chang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Medical Imaging, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 10 September 2009; accepted 5 October 2009. published online 11 January 2010.

Abstract 

Stereotactic directional vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (ST DVAB) is an accurate biopsy method. Marking the biopsy site with a clip is mandatory after ST DVAB, in case excision is required. With the ST DVAB system we use, clip was delivered through the biopsy probe. We report a case with malfunctioning of the ST DVAB system during the procedure, and thus the clip could not be placed through the biopsy probe. To salvage the procedure, we placed the clip to the biopsy site via a hemostasis introducer sheath.

Keywords: Breast biopsy, Breast neoplasms, Clip placement

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PII: S0899-7071(09)00307-6

doi:10.1016/j.clinimag.2009.10.037

Clinical Imaging
Volume 34, Issue 5 , Pages 385-387, September 2010

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