title: Imaging Guided Breast Interventions.
abstract: Breast imaging is a developing field, with new and upcoming innovations, decreasing the morbidity and mortality related to breast pathologies with main emphasis on breast cancer. Breast imaging has an essential role in the detection and management of breast disease. It includes a multimodality approach, i.e. mammography, ultrasound, magnetic resonance imaging, nuclear medicine techniques and interventional procedures, done for the diagnosis and definitive management of breast abnormalities. The range of methods to perform biopsy of a suspicious breast lesion found on imaging has also increased markedly from the 1990s with hi-technological progress in surgical as well as percutaneous breast biopsy methods. The image guided percutaneous breast biopsy procedures cause minimal breast scarring, save time, and relieve the patient of the anxiety of going to the operation theatre. The aim of this review was to describe and discuss the different image guided breast biopsy techniques presently employed along with the indications, contraindication, merits and demerits of each method.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
authors.forename: Imrana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Masroor
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
authors.forename: Shaista
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Afzal
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, The Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi.
authors.forename: Saira Naz
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Sufian
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D001940:Breast / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology*; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D053783:Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Interventional / Q000379:methods; D008327:Mammography / Q000379:methods*; D011856:Radiographic Image Enhancement; D018084:Ultrasonography, Interventional / Q000379:methods*; D016217:Ultrasonography, Mammary / Q000379:methods