Breast Biopsy Equipment
Breast Screening Technology Increases Accuracy
November 21, 2012 10:29 am | News | CommentsThe addition of three-dimensional breast imaging—a technology called tomosynthesis—to standard digital mammography significantly increases radiologists' diagnostic accuracy while reducing false positive recall rates, according to the results of a multi-center study published in Radiology.
LISTED UNDER: Biopsy Systems | Mammogram Units | Breast Biopsy EquipmentDigital Mammography-Quality Imaging
January 31, 2011 9:40 am | Product Releases | CommentsKUBTEC, a provider of technology for digital specimen x-ray systems, has released its new DIGICOM 7.0 software suite with the XM-7 option. The XM-7 option, available for the XPERT 40, gives users the unprecedented ability to view surgically excised tissue with digital mammography-quality imaging.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentBreast Endoscopy System To Find Breast Cancer
February 17, 2010 6:06 am | Solos Endoscopy.Com | Product Releases | CommentsSolos Endoscopy MammoView™ Breast Endoscopy System employs advanced microendoscopes and optical technology to give physicians sharp, clear images of the milk ducts, where the majority of breast cancers arise. The MammoView™ system distinguishes and inspects suspicious precancerous lesions undetectable by other methods.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentBreast Ductoscopy For The General Surgeon Course To Include New Product
October 7, 2009 7:23 am | News | CommentsPostgraduate surgeons will be given the skills to use the MammoView™ Product Line when Performing Breast Ductoscopy at American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress BOSTON, Oct. 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Solos Endoscopy, Inc. (Pink Sheets: SNDY) is pleased to announce that its MammoView™ line of surgical endoscopy instruments will be demonstrated at the 95th Annual American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress, held October 11th-15th in Chicago, IL.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentInstuments for Breast Endoscopy
December 16, 2008 9:36 am | Solos Endoscopy.Com | Product Releases | CommentsThe MammoView™ instrument line for breast endoscopy produces clear and precise video images, allowing direct observation of extremely confined sites such as the lining of the mammary ducts. The system includes a retractable dilator in a sheaf that gently opens the ductal orifice at the nipple.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentBracketing System for Breast Biopsy
October 13, 2008 11:20 am | Ranfac Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsRanfac has developed a Bracketing System designed to prevent accidental shearing during biopsies. In trying to reduce the high incidence of positive margins and the need for re-excision or mastectomy after single hooked wire excisions, a system of placing multiple hooked wires around the perimeter of a lesion before excision has become more common.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentCryoablation Device for Benign Breat Tumors
October 13, 2008 11:20 am | Sanarus Medical, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsThe Visica 2™ Treatment System is a minimally invasive cryotechnology device that is FDA cleared for the treatment of fibroadenomas, a common benign breast condition found in at least 10 percent of all women in the United States. The procedure uses cryoablation, or extreme cold, to destroy tumors without requiring stitches or general anesthesia.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentBreast Biopsy Bracketing System
June 11, 2007 11:52 am | Ranfac Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsRanfac has announced the release of a Bracketing System designed to prevent accidental shearing during biopsies. In trying to reduce the high incidence of positive margins and the need for reexcision or mastectomy after single hooked wire excisions, a system of placing multiple hooked wires around the perimeter of a lesion before excision has become common.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentLumpectomy Orientation System
June 11, 2007 11:52 am | Ranfac Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsThe patent pending Lumpectomy Orientation System provides a quick, easy and certain orientation of excisional breast biopsies. Labeling is done by the surgeon as soon as the specimen is out, improving compliance by getting accurate orientation. Tissue samples are oriented without the use of sutures, specifically using pins that can be inserted through the tissue sample.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentBreast Biopsy Device
June 11, 2007 11:52 am | Angiotech | Product Releases | CommentsThe V-Core™ Full Core Breast Biopsy Instrument offers a less traumatic method of obtaining large, intact, diagnostic quality specimens in a simple, easy-to-use device. This innovative device utilizes a patented, end-coil harvesting mechanism that encapsulates the specimen, then cores and captures it in the cannula.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentSurgical Breast Specimen Management System
April 25, 2007 6:45 am | Beekley Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsThe AccuGrid is a system for imaging, transporting, and processing surgical breast specimens. The special coating on the grid assures that the specimen maintains the same orientation, even during transport to pathology. The AccuGrid includes a sealed system to prevent exposure to bloodborne pathogens, a section for patient information that eliminates the risk of loss or misplacement, and two sets of coordinates on each grid so the user can view coordinates when doing a magnification view.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentDisposable Biopsy Needles
April 25, 2007 6:45 am | Ranfac Corporation | Product Releases | CommentsThese Disposable Biopsy Needles are uniquely designed to provide a safe and efficient method for automatically obtaining specimens and maintaining their integrity. Designed for one hand operation, the needle's lightweight and compact spring-activated design utilizes technology based on the TRU-CUT Principle.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentBreast Lesion Excision System
July 12, 2006 10:48 am | Intact Medical | Product Releases | CommentsThe Intact™ Breast Lesion Excision System (BLES) is an image-guided, minimally invasive biopsy procedure in which a slender wand is inserted through a small incision in the breast to remove an intact sample of suspicious tissue for histopathological analysis. The procedure is performed under local anesthesia in a physician’s office or other outpatient setting.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentMRI-Guided Breast Biopsy Device
July 12, 2006 10:48 am | Ethicon Endo-Surgery | Product Releases | CommentsThe Mammotome™ MR is an MRI-guided breast biopsy device designed to help doctors accurately diagnose women who are at high risk for breast cancer and have lesions that cannot be accurately detected with mammography or ultrasound. A procedure with the Mammotome MR involves the single insertion of a needle equipped with a vacuum device into a tiny ¼-inch incision.
LISTED UNDER: Breast Biopsy EquipmentRotational Biopsy Device
April 12, 2006 10:44 am | Sanarus Medical, Inc. | Product Releases | CommentsThe Cassi II automated, rotational biopsy system utilizes patented Stick-Freeze™ technology to immobilize lesions and extract large, intact, and contiguous tissue samples. The portable, self-contained, multiple-use Cassi II makes breast biopsies minimally-invasive, in-office procedures requiring only local anesthesia.
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