# The Role of Pre-deployment Retraction in Decreasing Biopsy Clip Migration During Stereotactic Breast Biopsies

> **NCT04398537** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **University of Alabama at Birmingham** · enrollment: 245 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Breast Biopsy

## Interventions

- **DEVICE:** 5mm retraction of clip deployment apparatus.
- **DEVICE:** No retraction of clip deployment apparatus.

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04398537
- **Lead sponsor:** University of Alabama at Birmingham
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2020-08-03
- **Primary completion:** 2022-01-14
- **Final completion:** 2023-07-26
- **Target enrollment:** 245 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2023-12-20


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04398537

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04398537, "The Role of Pre-deployment Retraction in Decreasing Biopsy Clip Migration During Stereotactic Breast Biopsies". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-03 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04398537. Licensed CC0.

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