ArticleJournal of medical ultrasonics (2001)2023
Comparison of the clinical and pathological characteristics of ultrasound-guided biopsy for breast masses and non-mass lesions between 16-gauge spring-loaded core needle biopsy and 12-gauge spring-loaded vacuum-assisted biopsy.
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6 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Vacuum-assisted breast biopsy vs core needle biopsy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.European radiology · 2026Pooled it
- Contrast-enhanced mammography-guided biopsy and localization: initial outcome and a single institution's experience.Quantitative imaging in medicine and surgery · 2026Article
- Value of ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted excision in the treatment of non-malignant breast nodules diagnosed as BI-RADS 4A or higher by ultrasound.Gland surgery · 2026Article
- Identification and Localization of Breast Tumor Components via a Convolutional Neural Network Based on High-Frequency Ultrasound Combined With Histopathologic Registration: Prospective Study.JMIR medical informatics · 2026Article
- The Evolution and Clinical Impact of Deep Learning Technologies in Breast MRI.Magnetic resonance in medical sciences : MRMS : an official journal of Japan Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine · 2025Review
- Comparison of state-of-the-art biopsy systems for ultrasound-guided breast biopsy using a chicken breast phantom.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2024Article
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Abstract
purposeTo retrospectively compare the clinical and pathological characteristics of breast masses and non-mass lesions that underwent ultrasound (US)-guided 16-gauge spring-loaded core needle biopsy (CNB) or 12-gauge spring-loaded vacuum-assisted biopsy (VAB).
methodsWe retrospectively compared the results from US-guided diagnostic breast biopsy performed with a 16-gauge CNB (Magnum™) or a 12-gauge VAB (Celero
resultsIn 453 patients with 500 lesions, 373 lesions underwent CNB and 127 underwent VAB. The positive biopsy rate (positive predictive value 3) was significantly higher for VAB (92/127; 72.4%) than for CNB (231/373; 61.9%) (P = 0.032). Non-mass lesions were biopsied more frequently with VAB (57/127; 47.4%) than with CNB (27/378; 7.14%) (P = 0.000). The upgrade rate from high-risk to malignant lesions was significantly higher for CNB (5/19; 26.3%) than for VAB (1/8; 12.5%) (P = 0.043). There were five (1.34%) specimen failures with CNB and one (0.78%) with VAB, 18 (4.82%) re-biopsies with CNB and three (2.36%) with VAB, and 11/21 (52.4%) upgrades from ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) to invasive ductal carcinoma (IDC) with CNB and 11/30 (36.7%) with VAB. Although these rates tended to be higher with CNB than with VAB, the difference was not significant.
conclusionAlthough VAB had a significantly higher rate of non-mass lesion biopsies, the upgrade rate from high-risk to malignant lesions was significantly lower for VAB than for CNB. US-guided 12-gauge spring-loaded VAB may be more appropriate for biopsy of non-mass lesions.
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