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If I can pull up another portion of a

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lecture so I could show you actually what a stereotypic biopsy looks

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like because I think it really is important to

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know the difference between the two

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or to recognize it just by seeing it. So this

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is what a stereotactic biopsy looks like. So

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unlike the needle localization which

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had that alphanumeric grid, you're going to see this little

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kind of radio radio Lucent box.

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And that's where the calcifications are

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going where you want to Center the cows Vacations. So

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it looks like you know people I think often get confused between the

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two but they look fairly different. This is

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a stereo you'll know because you'll see that this needle device

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kind of here this this radial Lucent

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grid, you might be getting you know,

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I'll let you look at these two, but these are some other questions

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based on stereotypic biopsies. So this

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is a type of if you were looking at this I don't have

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this whole feature but

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This is from a stereotactic biopsy.

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The degree of separation. So this

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always kept this is always mess with people up. But when we

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take when we do a stereotactic biopsy, you're going to get the calcifications you're

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going to get them you're going to take it mammogram picture

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is 0 degrees and then plus and minus 15

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degrees.

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And so people naturally want to say that the degree of

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separation is 15 degrees, but it's actually 30 degrees because

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it's plus and minus 30 degrees. So I'm

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sorry plus a minus 15 degrees. So it's a degree of

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separation of 30 degrees between the pairs.

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Let me skip this part. So like I said, this is a stereo. This

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is a 30 degree separation. I want

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to quickly show you.

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I think that these are

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I don't know if you guys have come

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across this question, but stereotactic errors are a

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really big important concept that I

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want you to understand and I really didn't even understand it myself

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until I made this lecture.

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So this is actually from another one of my lectures, but

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when you have a stereo error, basically the

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lesions should look correct on both on

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should look in the trough on both a positive

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and minus 15 degrees. So if it's not correct on

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both of these

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You know, it's it's there's some error some stereotactic error.

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So in this case you could see that the

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trough is too far to the right on both of these. So

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that is telling you that it's an X error and it's a

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positive X error because it's too far to the right. If it

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was too far the left it would be a Negative X error.

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Okay. So this is an important concept when it's

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when it's either in front of it or behind

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it. It's going to be a y issue. It's easier

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to describe when

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First is recognizing as it an extra and why

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error and then you have to decide

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to positive or negative. And remember these

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stereo errors are based on a prone

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table. So when the patient is lying on their belly and

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their breast is hanging through so I always want

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to say that this is a negative y error. This

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is a y error because it's either behind it or in front of it.

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In this case. I want everyone always thinks that this

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is a you know negative why error, but it's actually a positive why error

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because the patient is actually prone so it kind

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of goes opposite of what you think.

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In this case the trough is too far

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to the left on both of them.

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So it's going to be a Negative X

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error.

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Okay.

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I'm going to skip this one question because I

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think it's worded wrong. But this one it looks like

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it's too far to the right on one and too far the left

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on another it actually is just telling you it's not deep enough.

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So it's a z problem.

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So it's a negative Z problem because really you need

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to go in deeper. You're not deep enough.

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So again, and this one is you know,

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it's too far the left and one too far the right on the other. This

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is telling you it's too deep. So it's a positive Z

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problem. So it's a

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So I hope that makes sense. Like I

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said this one the trough is too far to the right on both of them.

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It's a positive X error.

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And this one?

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Like I said, it's behind it. So, you

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know, it's a why issue but in this case,

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it's a positive y issue and that's based on the fact that the patient

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is usually prone we use an upright table, but this

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is all based off of the protein table.

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In this case, it's too far to the left on both. So it's

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going to be a Negative X error.

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Skipping this one because I think this poorly

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worded again. This is not deep

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enough. It's too far the right on one and too far the left

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some other you really just need to it's a negative the error. It's

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not in Far Enough.

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He would you would fix that by going in further and

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the Z you would go positive Z and here it's

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too deep. It's too far too much positive Z.

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So you would turn it to the negative Z.

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So I hope that makes sense. Are there

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any other questions that I could help? Oh, my

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my Instagram Facebook address is the booby

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docs at on Instagram on

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Facebook. It's the thg booby biaoho-b-i-e

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and docs Docs

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It's really it if anyone have any further questions. All right.

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Well, thank you so much for your time. I really hope you learned

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something from this.

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talk

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Faculty

Robyn G Roth, MD

Women's Imaging Fellowship Director, Assistant Professor of Radiology

Cooper University Hospital

Tags

Ultrasound

Stereotactic

PET

Oncologic Imaging

Mammography

MRI

Breast

Biopsy