Mammography and Breast Localization for the Interventionalist

The goal of any physician practicing breast imaging and interventions is to identify breast cancers at their earliest so as to best affect patient outcomes. As screening mammography is the most widely used diagnostic tool in the detection of breast cancer, a thorough understanding of mammography and potential benign and malignant findings are a core requirement for breast imagers and interventionalists. Once identified, tumors must be surgically removed. Mammographic guided breast needle localization is a basic yet essential and very important procedure to facilitate proper surgical removal of breast cancer with a high degree of accuracy and lowest possible patient morbidity.