Role of directional vacuum assisted breast biopsy in previously equivocal biopsies for breast masses suspicious for XXXX .

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Among percutaneous biopsy techniques, the vacuum assisted breast biopsy (VAB) obtains large tissue samples to alleviate some of the limitations associated with conventional percutaneous biopsy techniques. We aimed to determine the efficacy of VAB in previous equivocal biopsies using the mammotome device. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A prospective non-randomized efficacy study was planned and executed on 43 @entity1 (42 @entity1 , 1 @entity1 ) whose previous FNAC and/or CNB of breast masses yielded inconclusive results or were suspicious for @entity5 . RESULTS: VAB revealed @entity5 in 31 (72%) of the 43 @entity1 . Among them, 23 were diagnosed as @entity513 ( @entity513 ) on VAB, 20 underwent surgery and the final histopathological diagnosis was the same in 19 of them. One @entity1 showed @entity513 -in-situ (DCIS) only in the surgical specimen. Other @entity5 included @entity1137 ( @entity1137 ) in 5 @entity1 and one each of DCIS, @entity1893 ( @entity1893 ) and @entity3 from @entity2 . Benign lesions were detected in 12 (28%) @entity1 . These included 8 @entity1557 , 2 @entity3923 and 1 each of @entity1271 and @entity0 . Four @entity1 with @entity1557 underwent surgical excision.
