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BREAST-NEEDLE-LOCALIZATION

check date: 14/08/2001
checker: Pamela
originator: Claudia
origination date: 19/09/2000
subject field: medicine: diagnostic procedure
URL: http://www.crouse.org/info/docs/BREASTNL.html

originator: Arianne
origination date: 25/01/2001
URL: http://www.crha-health.ab.ca/clin/women/needle.htm

originator: Arianne
origination date: 25/01/2001

Conceptual Structures
ISABIOPSY
ANCESTORSALL
BIOPSY
DIAGNOSTIC-PROCEDURE
EVENT
HEALTH-SERVE
INVASIVE-DIAGNOSTIC-TEST
MEDICAL-SERVE
PROFESSIONAL-SERVICE-EVENT
SERVICE-EVENT
SOCIAL-EVENT
WORK-ACTIVITY
RELATIONSDIAGNOSTIC-TEST-FOR : MALIGNANT-NEOPLASM-OF-FEMALE-BREAST
USES : NEEDLE
    CONTRAST-MEDIUM

English
breast needle localizationterm type: main entry term
part of speech: noun
number: singular
reliability code: 10
definition: a procedure used to locate calcifications or thickenings in the breast, which are detected by mammography but cannot be felt, in order to do a biopsy. Dye is injected through a needle placed in the area to be biopsed. This is a diagnostic procedure for breast cancer. (en)

Spanish
punción mamariaterm type: main entry term
part of speech: noun
gender: feminine
number: singular
reliability code: 10
definition: procedimiento diagnóstico que consiste en introducir un medio de contraste a través de una aguja en las glándulas mamarias para la localización de calcificaciones y bultos detectados anteriormente en una mamografía, pero que no han podido ser palpados. Se pueden tomar muestras para su análisis microscópico. (es)