Most Recent Studies

• Steven Schonholz, M.D., FACS: Reexcision Rates and its Relationship with the Breast Lesion Excision System as the Initial Core Biopsy Device. Presented at the American Society of Breast Surgeons Meeting.
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Peer-reviewed Publications

• - Dr. László Tabár, one of the world's foremost mammographers, has been using the Intact BLES for about a year. During his evaluation of the
  Intact BLES, Dr. Tabár became intrigued with its potential for the avoidance of surgical biopsy for high risk lesions and initiated a retrospective study of 140 consecutive cases of breast papillary lesions as far back as 1995. Click below to read the results of this retrospective study. (207KB PDF)

• Sie A, et al., Multi-center Evaluation of the Breast Lesion Excision System, a Percutaneous, Vacuum-Assisted Intact-Specimen Breast Biopsy Device. Cancer, Volume 107, September 2006., pp. 945-949 (124KB PDF)
  
  
• Killebrew LK, Oneson RH, Comparison of the Diagnostic Accuracy of a Vacuum-Assisted Percutaneous Intact Specimen Sampling Device to a Vacuum-Assisted Core Needle Sample Device for Breast Biopsy: Initial Experience. The Breast
  Journal, Volume 12, Number 4, July 2006, pp. 302-308. (160KB PDF)
  
  
• Rogers LW, Breast Biopsy: A Pathologist's Perspective on Biopsy Acquisition Techniques and Devices with Radiologic-Pathologic Correlation. Seminars in Breast Disease, November 2006, pp. 127-137. (6.5MB PDF)
  
  

Comparison of Procedures

• Comparison of the Diagnostic Accuracy of a Vacuum-assisted Percutaneous Intact Specimen Biopsy Device to 11-gauge Vacuum-assisted Core Procedures (3.6MB PDF)
• Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy to a Vacuum-Assisted Core Needle Sampling Device for Biopsy of Breast Cancer (671KB PDF)
• Comparison of Diagnostic Accuracy to a Core Needle Sampling Device for Biopsy of Breast Cancer (18KB PDF)
• Percutaneous Contiguous Electrosurgical Breast Biopsy Devices (3.6MB PDF)

• Initial Experience: A Pathology Perspective (2.8MB PDF)
• Histopathological Preparation (128KB PDF)
• Comparison of specimen sizes and histopathological preparation vs. 11g and 8g vacuum-assisted core (926KB PDF)
• Intact Image Guided Breast Biopsy Reduces Need for Subsequent Open Excision in Benign Proliferative Lesions (244KB PDF)

The Case for Surgical Avoidance

• Sparing Patients Surgery When Facing Four Common Challenges (448KB PDF)
  
• Avoiding Surgical Excisional Biopsies for Specific ADH Diagnoses (128KB PDF)
  
• Advantages over 11gCore Needle Biopsy for the Diagnosis of Benign Radial Scars (220KB PDF)
  
• Reduced Sampling Error Prevents Additional Surgery for a Patient with Persistent DCIS (140KB PDF)
  
• Ability to Diagnose IDC During Biopsy Spares Patient a Third Intervention (220KB PDF)
  
• Avoiding Surgery in Small, Dense Lesions (120KB PDF)
  
• Confidence from a Benign Diagnosis of Ductal Papilloma Spares Patient Surgical Biopsy (164KB PDF)
  
• Complete Escision of Papillary Lesion Avoids Need for Open Surgery (132KB PDF)
  
• Complete Percutaneous Excision of Radial Scar Avoids Surgical Removal (164KB PDF)
  
• Distinguishing Intraductal Papilloma from DCIS Spares Patient Surgical Biopsy (140KB PDF)
  
• Differentiation of Schlerosing Adenosis from LCIS Spares Patient a Surgical Biopsy (2.7MB PDF)
  
• Avoiding Surgery in an Elderly Patient (200KB PDF)
  
• Confident Diagnosis of Ultrasonically Imageable Masses in the Breast (212KB PDF)

Technical Notes

• Anesthetic Protocol for Intact™ Breast Lesion Excision System (138KB PDF)
• US-Guidance: Use of Lidocaine or Saline Bolus to Separate Lesions From Skin or Chest Wall (2.0MB PDF)
• US-Guidance: Special Techniques to Create Safe Margin (1.8MB PDF)
• Lower Pain Scales (64KB PDF)
• Patient Education and Pain Management (64KB PDF)
• Cosmetic and Mammographic Healing (2.7MB PDF)
• Longer Term Mammographic Characteristics (1.1MB PDF)
• Incision Closure (276KB PDF)

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