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Malignant seeding of the needle track during stereotaxic core needle breast biopsy
L P Harter1, J S Curtis, G Ponto
1Breast Care Center, Goleta Valley Community Hospital, Santa Barbara, CA 93111.
Radiology
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
Early reports demonstrated the diagnostic advantage of large-core (14-gauge) biopsy over fine-needle aspiration biopsy of nonpalpable lesions of the breast without apparent significant increase in morbidity. A case of malignant seeding of the needle track after a large-core biopsy of a mucinous carcinoma of the breast is documented. The potential for increased risk of tract seeding of malignancy must be considered.