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Clinical benefits of tomosynthesis-guided vacuum assisted breast biopsy: a comparison with stereotactic vacuum
Mikiko Kasahara1, Sayaka Kanematsu1, Yoshihito Tanaka1
1Department of Surgery, Division of Breast Surgery, Kansai Medical University Kori Hospital, 8-45 Kourihondoricho, Neyagawa, Osaka, 572-8551, Japan.
Background:
Tomosynthesis-guided vacuum assisted breast biopsy (3D-VAB) has been used increasingly. The aim of our study is to compare the clinical effectiveness of 3D-VAB and stereotactic vacuum assisted biopsy (2D-VAB) on the number of tissue cores containing targeted calcifications and on the procedure time.
Methods:
Consecutive 87 women who underwent biopsy at our hospital from April 2020 to March 2022 for calcifications mammographically suspicious of malignancy were included in this study: 57 patients with 3D-VAB and 30 patients with 2D-VAB.
Results:
Grouped or clustered calcified lesions were found in 39 and 21 patients among the 3D-VAB group and the 2D-VAB group, respectively. The mean number of tissue cores per biopsy containing targeted calcifications from the grouped or clustered calcified lesions was 3 and 2.3 specimens for the 3D-VAB group and for the 2D-VAB group, respectively. The mean procedure time for grouped or clustered calcifications was significantly shorter in the 3D-VAB group than in the 2D-VAB group (16.5 min vs. 27.4 min, P < 0.01). Comparing the procedure time between 3D-VAB and 2D-VAB based on calcification category, 3D-VAB had significantly shorter procedure time than 2D-VAB for both category 3 and category 4 calcification. For all patients, the mean procedure time was 18.1 min for the 3D-VAB group and 27.7 min for the 2D-VAB, thus being significantly shorter with 3D-VAB than 2D-VAB (P < 0.01).
Conclusion:
Our study demonstrated that the clinical effectiveness of 3D-VAB is superior to that of 2D-VAB and that the significant reduction in examination time with 3D-VAB is expected to benefit patients.
