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title: "Pintuition® Surgical Marker Navigation for Excision of Non-Palpable Ultrasound-Visible Breast Lesions: First 200 Cases in a French Cancer Center"
description: This prospective single‑center study from Institut Godinot and Institut Curie evaluated Pintuition® surgical marker navigation for the excision of non‑palpable, ultrasound‑visible breast lesions. Across 200 consecutive procedures, all primary lesions and markers were successfully retrieved, with a low re‑excision rate and high user adoption among surgeons.
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# [Pintuition® Surgical Marker Navigation for Excision of Non-Palpable Ultrasound-Visible Breast Lesions: First 200 Cases in a French Cancer Center](https://www.sirius-medical.com/clinical-one-pagers/pintuition-surgical-marker-navigation-for-excision-of-non-palpable-ultrasound-visible-breast-lesions-first-200-cases-in-a-frenchcancer-center)

 Written by [Ceccato V et al. (2025)](https://www.sirius-medical.com/clinical-one-pagers/author/ceccato-v-et-al-2025) | May 8, 2026 10:59:50 AM

**Key messages:**

- **100% target lymph node identification** achieved at surgery using Pintuition® after neoadjuvant chemotherapy
- **Reliable surgical marker navigation when the target node is not the sentinel node**, observed in **30% of cases** (44% with residual disease)
- **Safe and feasible technique**, with **no complications** related to marker placement or navigation reported
- **Wire‑free, non‑radioactive workflow**, enabling flexible scheduling and eliminating same‑day wire localization

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