Pre-op localisation of impalpable breast lesions with a radiofrequency identifier device (RFID)

Ravichandran, Duraisamy; Zakharova, Natalia; Shrestha, Deepak; Murthy, Sreedhar; Butler, Stephanie; Swinson, Christine; Kirkpatrick, Katharine

Pre-op localisation of impalpable breast lesions with a radiofrequency identifier device (RFID)

Authors

Ravichandran, Duraisamy

Zakharova, Natalia

Shrestha, Deepak

Murthy, Sreedhar

Butler, Stephanie

Swinson, Christine

Kirkpatrick, Katharine

Issue Date

2023-05

Keywords

Research Subject Categories::MEDICINE::Surgery

Abstract

Impalpable breast lesions are traditionally localised with a wire to facilitate surgical removal. This method of localisation is associated with a number of logistical problems, the main one being the requirement to do the localisation on the day of surgery. More recently, a number of non-wire techniques have been introduced. We evaluated the performance of a RFID (LOCalizerTM) in this context.

Citation

Ravichandran, Duraisamy et al. (2023) Pre-op localisation of impalpable breast lesions with a radiofrequency identifier device (RFID). European Journal of Surgical Oncology, Volume 49, Issue 5, e253. doi: 10.1016/j.ejso.2023.03.143