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. 1987 Feb 15;59(4):715-22.
doi: 10.1002/1097-0142(19870215)59:4<715::aid-cncr2820590409>3.0.co;2-c.

Hooked-wire-directed breast biopsy and overpenetrated mammography

M J Silverstein, P Gamagami, R J Rosser, E D Gierson, W J Colburn, N Handel, A G Fingerhut, B S Lewinsky, R S Hoffman, J R Waisman

Hooked-wire-directed breast biopsy and overpenetrated mammography

M J Silverstein et al. Cancer. .

Abstract

Six hundred fifty-three biopsies were performed for clinically occult, mammographically detected breast abnormalities. One hundred forty-seven cancers (22.5%) were found. Eighty-nine of those cancers (60.5%) were noninvasive. None of the in situ lesions had involved axillary lymph nodes. Of the 58 invasive cancers, only six (10.3%) had metastases to axillary nodes. Fifty-four patients (36.7%) were treated by mastectomy while 93 patients (63.3%) were treated conservatively, 20 by biopsy only, and 73 by lumpectomy, axillary node dissection, and radiation therapy. Only four patients (0.7%) had significant complications.

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