The needle for localization of non-palpable mammary lesions has the aim to allow the doctor to localize such lesions in order to proceed to their screening and, when necessary, to the surgical operation  The IM needle is used with the invasive method studied by Kopans, this method requires that inside the needle there is positioned a hooked wire that, once joined the mammary lesion, is droven into the lesion itself with the contemporary withdrawl of the needle. The wire that has a shape studied by Kopans himself, is still at the mammary parenchyma and allows in the following phase, to find out the location minimalizing the quantity of the lesioned parenchyma asported in comparison with other traditional methods. Kopans needle has been clinically tested and it is largely used, M.D.L. has conformed to the shape and range of needles that were on the market.

The clinical functionality of M.D.L. needles is assured by the fact that dimensionally, in their shape and point of the mandrels, they follow the ones that usually specialist doctors use since a long time.

M.D.L. has personalized some shapes of the plastic components, without alterating their functional proprieties.

IM and IMX are complete with echo-marker.

Use modalities

Remove the protection of the needle and of the wire.

Regulate the position of the sliding stopper once established the depth you should join.

Verify that the hooks do not come pout from the needle’s point.

Penetrate until you do not find the target, keep still the wire and withdraw the cannula from the patient. The hook will be completely out of the point of the needle when the red notch marked on the back of the wire near the grip will not be visible anymore.

Block carefully the wire projecting out of the breast.