Prospective assessment of a new graduated hookwire for the localization of impalpable breast lesions

Abstract

The benefits of the addition of site specific variable graduations to a conventional mammographic localizing wire were assessed in a prospective multidistrict study. Six surgeons and five radiologists localized lesions in 31 patients in three District General Hospitals. The advantages of the graduated wire were shown to be greater ease and accuracy of radiological localization with easier surgical excision and a smaller resected breast specimen.

Randomized Prospective Evaluation of a Novel Technique for Biopsy or Lumpectomy of Nonpalpable Breast Lesions: Radioactive Seed Versus Wire Localization

“…Several modifications of the WL technique have been proposed to help minimize some of these problems, [5][6][7][8] and some have used intraoperative ultrasound in select cases. 9 Gennari et al 10 reported radioguided breast biopsy with 99m Tc-labeled albumin.…”