Malignant microcalcification: prediction of excision margins by separating calcified and noncalcified core biopsies
Henry J. Cain, A Mooney, J Westgarth, Tarannum Fasih, David Browell, Kevin Clark, Diane Hemming, L.G. Lunt · Breast Cancer Research · 2010
Suspicious microcalcification is investigated by vacuum-assisted core biopsy. Many patients, in whom malignancy is diagnosed, go on to have breast-conserving surgery where positive resection margins require re-operation. The aim of this study was to determine whether there is an increased risk of positive margins when malignancy is identified in cores without microcalcification.