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Add-on Device for Stereotactic Core-Needle Breast Biopsy: How Many Biopsy Specimens Are Needed for a Reliable Diagnosis?¹

¹ From the Departments of Clinical Radiology (A.K.K., M.S., M.H.B., R.S.V.), Pathology (V.J.K.), Oncology (V.K.), and Surgery (P.K.M.), Kuopio University Hospital and Kuopio University, Puijonlaaksontie 2, FIN-70210 Kuopio, Finland. Received April 30, 2004; revision requested July 14; revision received October 13; accepted November 15. Supported by Kuopio University Hospital (EVO funding 406023). Address correspondence to A.K.K. (e-mail: Anna.Koskela{at}kuh.fi).

PURPOSE: To prospectively determine whether there is a minimum number of cores required for histopathologic diagnosis of mammographically detected nonpalpable breast lesions with an add-on 14-gauge stereotactic core-needle biopsy device.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: The study was approved by the ethics committee of the hospital; informed consent was obtained. Biopsy was performed in 197 patients with 205 lesions (97 masses, 108 microcalcifications). The first sample (from the center) was collected in container A; second and third samples (2 mm from center), in container B; and additional samples, in container C. Malignancies, atypical ductal hyperplasia (ADH), and radial scars were excised. Benign lesions were followed up mammographically (mean, 24 months). Strict sensitivity and working sensitivity were calculated separately. Stereotactic biopsy with diagnosis of a nonmalignant lesion that, after surgery, proved to be malignant was considered false-negative when strict sensitivity was calculated. Stereotactic biopsy with diagnosis of ADH or radial scar was considered true-positive if the findings at surgery corresponded to the results at biopsy or indicated malignancy and was considered false-positive if the findings at surgery were benign when working sensitivity was calculated. Sensitivity, specificity, and overall accuracy of stereotactic biopsy were determined for masses and microcalcifications in all three containers by using surgical samples and findings at mammographic follow-up as reference. At ² analysis, P < .05 was considered to indicate significant difference.

RESULTS: Strict sensitivity of the first sample was 77% (66 of 86) (90% [35 of 39] for masses, 66% [31 of 47] for microcalcifications). Results of the first sample were false-negative significantly more often in microcalcifications (n = 16) than in masses (n = 4) (P = .010). Combined results of containers A and B (ie, three samples) yielded higher strict sensitivity than those with first sample alone (95% [37 of 39] for masses [P = .196], 91% [43 of 47] for microcalcifications [P < .001]). With multiple samples, strict and working sensitivity were both 100% (39 of 39) for masses and 91% (43 of 47) and 98% (46 of 47), respectively, for microcalcifications. Four false-negative diagnoses (ADH, three cases; lesion with discordant mammographic and stereotactic biopsy findings, one case) were microcalcifications.

CONCLUSION: More than three samples are needed (a minimum number was not determined) for a histologic diagnosis of a mass lesion by using an add-on stereotactic biopsy device.

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