Breast Procedures Ultrasound Only Edited
Breast Procedures Ultrasound Only Edited
Breast Procedures Ultrasound Only Edited
Pathology Concordance
• Biopsy tray
• Ultrasound biopsy
– Devices and clips
– Core biopsy
– Fine-needle biopsy and aspiration
– Post procedure mammogram
– Tips on local anesthetic and minimizing bleeding
• Briefly touch on
– Stereotactic
– Tomosynthesis
– MRI
– Pre-operative imaging guided localization
• Pathology concordance
• Questions
Evaluate with US
Can you find
the lesion on Yes US correlate
US? likely?
Yes
No Lesion
found? No No
Yes
• Fast
• Arguably less bleeding risk as can more easily avoid vessels etc
• No radiation
Gray needle:
Sterile probe 22 g needle with a
cover, drape 6 cc syringe for
and ultrasound deeper anesthesia
gel (*the lower the
gauge number, the
Scalpel: for making skin incision larger the needle)
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Ultrasound-guided biopsy
• Aspiration
– Cyst
– Abscess
• Masses
– Usually lymph node, rare to do on solid mass
• The key that most people don’t tell you is that you hold the probe
parallel to the floor, not to the biopsy target, as this is the only
variable that remains stable
• This allows you to control your image, and maximize the sound
arrays from the probe. The sound waves are strongest in the center
of the probe.
• The deeper the lesion, the further away your skin nick should be
from the probe. Needle should as much as possible be parallel to
chest wall.
Steps:
1. Begin with steps 1-4 from US-guided cyst aspiration. Use 1%
lidocaine to make a skin wheal at the entry point. Use US guidance
for deeper local anesthesia with 1% lidocaine with epinephrine.
2. Make a ~ 5 mm dermatotomy using the scalpel at the optimal entry
point.
3. An introducer sheath may be used to allow for multiple entries
through the same tract. This is done, with US guidance, by inserting
the sheath with the inner stylet into the breast towards the target of
interest. When the needle is immediately abutting the target, but not
through the target, the inner stylet is removed and the sheath
remains in place. Note that use of an introducer can be associated
with the introduction of air artifacts.
4. Using US-guidance, direct the biopsy device towards the target. A
steep angle may be used initially and then flatten out so that the
needle is parallel to the chest wall.
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US-Guided Core Biopsy
Steps (cont.):
5. Bring the needle tip to the edge of the mass. Allow room for a 2 cm
throw and deploy the device.
6. Remove the biopsy device. If no introducer is used, the incision can
be covered with gauze and pressure applied.
7. Cock the biopsy device once to expose the sample. Place the
sample in the specimen cup (which is not sterile). Make sure to
keep the biopsy device sterile when removing the specimen.
8. It is standard to take a total of 5 specimens, although as few as 3
can be taken at the radiologist’s discretion, depending on the
specimen quality.
9. Place a tissue marker at the biopsy site. The shape of the marker
should be unique if the patient already has markers in that breast.
10.Hold pressure for ~5 minutes after the procedure. Place steri-strips
and bandage over the incision.
11.Take a mammogram to confirm tissue marker placement with CC
andCANCER
BREAST 90 degree lateral views.
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Fine needle aspiration
Left Axilla
Clinical Case: Patient with history of breast cancer, sent to
breast imaging for new suspicious left axillary adenopathy
identified with a CT scan.
1. Diagnostic left axillary ultrasound performed to locate the
best target for biopsy. Choose the most suspicious lymph
node (e.g. thickest cortex / loss of fatty hilum) and favor a
more superficial lymph node (easier to access).
2. Begin as if performing a cyst aspiration.
3. Using a 23 gauge syringe, enter the lymph node of
interest and pass the needle back and forth 10 or more
times within the target. Repeat this step 3 times. Slides can
be made from each aspirate and remaining sample can be
placed in CytoLyt for cytologic analysis
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4. Hold pressure and place bandaid over the entry point.
1. 2.
1 2
Target in sight: Needle advanced up to the mass,
Left breast, 9:00, 4 cm FN, ARAD parallel to the chest wall, ready to deploy.
3. 4.
3 4
Post-deployment orthogonal view confirming
Post-deployment image needle placement through the center of the
showing adequate sampling mass, which can be done if there is concern
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through the mass with needle tip for peripheral sampling.
Post-biopsy Mammogram
Purpose:
Used for lesions not seen on
2D mammography or US.
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3D Tomosynthesis-Guided Biopsy
Steps: 5. Proceed with general biopsy steps
(prep and sterilize), advance the
1. Position the breast in compression and obtain an needle, take the samples, and
initial scout 3D tomosynthesis. place the clip.
2. Identify the slice that shows the lesion the best. 6. Obtain a post biopsy tomo to
3. Create the target by clicking on the target button. ensure clip is in the correct place.
4. Software selects the coordinates and provides a 7. Hold pressure for 5 minutes and
picture of the biopsy plan. dress the wound.
1 2 3
1 localization)
3 the localization wire
Image 2: Image 4:
Image 2:
The needle is exchanged
for a localizing wire.
Post-procedure mammogram confirms 2 satisfactory placement of the
localizing
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AWARENESS relative to the targeted mass and biopsy marker clip.
MONTH
Saviscout and
magseed, radioactive
seed localization
Differential
High risk
Cancer Not Cancer
lesion
Breast Disease
Atypia X 26%
Incidental/completely excised by imaging or pathology X
Papilloma 1% (1/106) Open TBCRC Study
4/171 (2.3%), 4% all
No atypia X recent studies In press (CNCR-16-0097.R1)
wide range of
Atypia X upgrade
Benign vascular lesion
No atypia X 0/22 (0%) unpublished MSKCC data
Atypia X
Mucocele-like lesion 4/28 (14%) http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
No atypia X 0/10 (0%) 23534893
Atypia X 4/18 (22%)
Fibroepithelial lesions X http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/
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• Which is correct?
a) 14 gauge needle with vacuum assistance has a lower undersampling rate than the
12 gauge without vacuum assistance
b) 12 gauge needle with vacuum assistance has a higher undersampling rate than
the 14 gauge without vacuum assistance
c) 14 gauge needle without vacuum assistance has a lower undersampling rate than
the 12 gauge without vacuum assistance
a. Benign, discordant
b. Benign, concordant
c. High risk, surgical consultation
a. Benign, concordant
b. Benign, discordant
c. High risk, surgical consultation
d. Malignant, conordant