Surveillance Imaging After MRI-Guided Benign Breast Biopsies

MRI is the most sensitive imaging modality for detecting breast cancer. With increased lesion detection via MRI came the invention of MRI-guided percutaneous core needle biopsies (MR-PCNB). The majority of these biopsies are benign (ranging between 70% and 86%), and therefore determination of radiologic-pathologic concordance is important in guiding patient management [1,2]. If radiologic-pathologic correlation is discordant, further tissue sampling is necessary to counteract sampling error because the rate of malignancy in discordant cases has been reported to be as high as 36% [3,4].

Source: Journal of the American College of Radiology : JACR - February 7, 2019 Category: Radiology Authors: Bhavika K. Patel, Tom Chen, Mary Newell, Heidi E. Kosiorek, Vilert Loving, Carl D ’orsi Tags: Case studies in clinical practice management Source Type: research