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Biopsy needles designed to take a sample of breast tissue for laboratory analysis. These devices may consist of either a conventional soft-tissue biopsy device that includes two concentric needles to take a sample (i.e., core-needle biopsy) or, more frequently, a very fine needle used for aspiration of cells (i.e., fine-needle aspiration biopsy). Some of these needles are part of systems that perform mammographic stereotactic biopsies.
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