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Abstract
Conservative breast therapy consists of wide local excision followed by local control of the breast cancer by boost radiotherapy. For radiologists, identification of breast tumor bed is an essential first step for them to start their radiotherapy. There is number of ways to identify the tumor bed, one of them is inserting the metallic clips in the tumor bed cavity intra-operative. They mark the tumor cavity against the whole breast normal tissue as they appear radio-opaque during radiotherapy.
The literature review was done by searching on different databases using the keywords for only English studies reporting using surgical clips for localization in breast surgeries. There was no restriction to specific period or study design. Assessment of included studies was done by 2 independent researchers.
Using surgical clips whatever their type is very helpful for radiologists to define breast tumor bed especially with the obvious increase in using oncoplastic techniques. It’s recommended to use more than 5 clips at tumor bed cavity with special concern to insert them at least 4 margins of tumor bed.