<unk>  is a procedure that uses very thin<unk> s or guide wires to mark the location of an abnormal area of tissue so it can be surgically sampled. An imaging device such as an ultrasound probe is used to place the wire in or around the abnormal area.<unk>  localization is used when the doctor cannot feel the mass of abnormal tissue.<unk>  localizations are commonly performed by radiologists before excisional biopsy of breast lesions, using one of a number of commercially available<unk>  and wire systems such as the Kopans wire. A similar process is used by radiologists to<unk> known malignancies that have previously undergone core biopsy so that the tumor can be definitively removed.
Needle-localized biopsy
Open biopsy
Fine-needle aspiration
Biopsy
Scintimammography
Xeromammography
Molecular imaging
Radiomics