Excisional biopsy of impalpable soft tissue tumors US-guided preoperative localization in 12 cases

A technical note: pre-operative ultrasound-guided wire localization in head and neck surgery

“…The concept of UGWL is well established in the management of breast pathology, and has also proved useful in pre-operative localization in orthopaedic surgery. Wire localization to aid the excision of soft tissue tumors including intramuscular haemangiomas [4] and neuromas [5] demonstrated good results, while cases This lies adjacent just lateral to the trachea. The 18-gauge needle can be seen passing though the overlying soft tissue (large arrows), and its tip (small arrow) lies just adjacent to the lesion reported by Chettiar et al [2] aided excision of a femoral sheath neuroma and localization of a sacroiliac abscess for incision and drainage.…”

Intraoperative portable ultrasonography localization of clinically impalpable soft-tissue tumors

“…Pre-operative fine-wire localization has traditionally been the most popular method in localization of impalpable tumors, especially in the case of breast lesions [9] and impalpable soft-tissue tumors [10], and also in localization of intrathoracic lung lesions [11]. However, this process involves inconvenience to the patient because of the pain and discomfort involved, and to the hospital team in terms of time consumption and organization [12].…”

Presurgical, ultrasound-guided anchor-wire marking of impalpable cervical lymph nodes

“…A review of the literature showed that the proposed technique is widely used to mark impalpable breast lumps, 2-4 soft tissue metastases in patients with melanoma 5 and impalpable soft tissue tumours. 6 However, there are two references to the use of this technique in head and neck surgery. Needle hookwire localization with computed tomographic guidance has been described for localization and surgical removal of a traumatically introduced foreign body deep within the infratemporal fossa, 7 and ultrasoundguided needle localization has been used intra-operatively to identify and guide the resection of medullary thyroid carcinoma lymph node metastasis.…”