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Interventional procedures are an increasing workload of the breast diagnosis unit. They include digital stereotactic devices and also sophisticated biopsy systems to either sample a lesion or remove it entirely. In some circumstances this negates open surgery and its co morbidities. Interventional procedures include the methods listed in Table 32.1.
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Garnett, S.E. (2015). Purpose of Interventional Procedures. In: Hogg, P., Kelly, J., Mercer, C. (eds) Digital Mammography. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04831-4_32
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