Nationwide survey of use of vacuum-assisted breast biopsy in South Korea.

Background: Image-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VABB) is used for detecting breast lesions in South Korea. However, no clear guidelines for VABB exist.

Materials And Methods: A 53-item survey was administered to members of the Korean Breast Cancer Society between July 27 and August 27, 2010.

Long-term follow-up result of benign phyllodes tumor of the breast diagnosed and excised by ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy.

Purpose: Percutaneous removal of benign breast tumors using ultrasound-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy (VABB) has been recently regarded as a feasible and safe method without serious complications. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the VABB in the treatment of benign phyllodes tumors, and to identify whether or not surgical re-excision is necessary for benign phyllodes tumors diagnosed and excised by VABB.

Methods: From January 2003 to December 2011, a total of 6,923 VABB were performed in 5,434 patients.

Radical surgical resection for carcinoid tumors of the ampulla.

Ampullary carcinoid tumors are extremely rare. The present study describes the clinicopathological features and outcomes for 10 ampullary carcinoid patients who underwent radical resection from 1998 to 2005. During this study period, 294 patients underwent pancreatoduodenectomy for ampullary neoplasms in our institution.