title: Clip migration after 11-gauge vacuum-assisted stereotactic biopsy: case report.
abstract: A 68-year-old woman underwent stereotactic biopsy of a small cluster of calcifications. The post-biopsy mammograms showed the biopsy-marking clip to be located correctly at the biopsy site. Follow-up mammograms 1 year later showed that the clip migrated to another quadrant of the breast. Findings in this case demonstrate that at long-term follow-up a biopsy-marking clip may not be accurately marking the biopsy site.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, PO Box 208042, New Haven, CT 06520, USA. philpotts@biomed.med.yale.edu
authors.forename: Liane E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Philpotts
authors.forename: Carol H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D008327:Mammography; D013238:Stereotaxic Techniques; D013525:Surgical Instruments; D014618:Vacuum