Background/Aim: The problem of adequately marking any given lesion within a breast
surgical site is commonly solved by introducing a titanium clip. However, clip dislocation …

Background Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer and the leading cause of
cancer death in women. Approximately 50% of breast cancers are discovered at an early …

Background. Breast screening has decreased morbidity and mortality due to detection of
early, non-palpable breast cancers. One of the challenges of performing breast-conserving …

AIM To report the outcome of 150 patients using the Hologic LOCalizer RFID
(radiofrequency identification) tag system, including the first reported use of RFID tags in the …

Purpose In breast conserving surgery, accurate lesion localization is essential for obtaining
adequate surgical margins. Preoperative wire localization (WL) and radioactive seed …

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BACKGROUND. Advantages of radiofrequency tags for preoperative breast lesion …

Simple Summary A large portion of breast lesions are not palpable and need to be marked
before surgery in order to aid complete surgical removal. Currently, this is accomplished by …

Abstract Background/Aim: Smaller, earlier-stage breast tumors are being found in breast
cancer screening, and neoadjuvant chemotherapy is the gold standard when chemotherapy …

Purpose Use of a wire to localize a non-palpable breast lesion for surgery is standard but
archaic. We sought to evaluate a new radiofrequency localization system (RFLS) as an …

Background/Aim: Wire-guided localisation (WGL) has been the mainstay for localisation of
clinically occult breast lesions before excision. However, it has restrictive scheduling …