MR-guided intervention in women at high hereditary risk of breast cancer due to both family and personal history of breast cancer.
The purpose of this study was to assess the value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-guided intervention in women with a significant hereditary susceptibility to breast cancer due to both family and personal history of breast cancer (heterozygote risk >20%). Thirty women were referred for MR-guided intervention. MR examinations (1.0 T, T1-weighted 3D FLASH, 0.15 mmol Gd-DTPA/kg body weight, prone position) were performed using a system which allows vacuum-assisted breast biopsy or wire localization. Histologic findings in 41 procedures revealed six invasive carcinomas, eight ductal carcinomas in situ and two atypical ductal hyperplasias. Twenty-three benign histologic results were verified by an MR-guided intervention, retrospective correlation of imaging and histology and by subsequent follow-up. In two lesions the indication dropped as the enhancing lesion was no longer visible on the date of planned intervention. Absent enhancement was confirmed by short-term re-imaging of the non-compressed breast and by follow-up.
Viehweg
Petra
P
Institute of Diagnostic Radiology, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany. petra.viehweg@uniklinikum-dresden.de
Bernerth
Thorsten
T
Heinig
Anke
A
Kiechle
Marion
M
Buchmann
Jörg
J
Koelbl
Heinz
H
Laniado
Michael
M
Helen Heywang-Köbrunner
Sylvia
S
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001707:Biopsy, Needle; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000235:genetics; D005260:Female; D020022:Genetic Predisposition to Disease; D006579:Heterozygote; D006801:Humans; D053783:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Interventional; D008875:Middle Aged; D009364:Neoplasm Recurrence, Local; D011237:Predictive Value of Tests