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Percutaneous Biopsies: Clinical and Radiological Aspects

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The applicability of percutaneous biopsies is to define the cytological or histological structure of palpable or impalpable lesions, enabling a non-surgical diagnosis of mammary lesions. The histological result plays a major role in surgical planning, and the complementary immunohistochemical study offers a prominent definition of prognostic factors and adjuvant treatment and afterward the classification of the biological tumor profile.

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Maranhão, N.M., di Pace Bauab, S., Miranda, B.M. (2019). Percutaneous Biopsies: Clinical and Radiological Aspects. In: Novita, G., Frasson, A., Millen, E., Zerwes, F., Cavalcante, F. (eds) Breast Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13636-9_9

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