What are the advantages and disadvantages to open surgical biopsy?
Surgical biopsy yields the largest breast tissue sample of all the breast biopsy methods, and the accuracy of a diagnosis using the open surgical method is close to 100%, making it the “gold standard” of breast biopsy methods. Disadvantages of Open Surgical Biopsy is it requires stitches and can leave a scar formation within the breast and the scar may persist for 12 months or longer and complicate the interpretation of follow up mammograms. Rare complications of the procedure include chances of bleeding, infection, or problems with wound healing.
