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.

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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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