[Initial experience of magnetic resonance imaging-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy].
Almost all mammary lesions are detected by a mammography and an ultrasound. However, a small part of lesions cannot be shown by only a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). MRI-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy is a very useful means for the pathological diagnosis of these lesions. We performed MRI-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy to 4 patients with the lesions seen only by MRI. Biopsies were safely and easily performed using biopsy software (syngo BreVis). These biopsied specimens resulted cancer in 1, adenoma in 1 and benign lesions in 2. With an increase of the opportunity of MRI for the mammary lesions, we expect these lesions become increasingly large. We believe that MRI-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy will be an important diagnostic modality.
Department of Radiology, Nagasaki Prefecture Shimabara Hospital.
Hironori
H
Tajiri
Shirou
S
Obata
Shigetoshi
S
Matsuo
Ichirou
I
Isomoto
Tomayoshi
T
Hayashi
Youhei
Y
Arai
Tomishige
T
Ikeda
Maki
M
Hira
Miki
M
Sugimoto
D001706:Biopsy / Q000379:methods*; D001940:Breast / Q000473:pathology*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D014618:Vacuum