Can supplementary contrast-enhanced MRI of the breast avoid needle biopsies in suspicious microcalcifications seen on mammography? A systematic review and meta-analysis

CONCLUSION: A negative supplementary CE-MRI could potentially avoid 80.6% of unnecessary stereotactic biopsies in BI-RADS 4 microcalcifications at a cost of 3.7% missed breast cancers, 1.6% invasive. BI-RADS benchmarks for downgrading mammographic calcifications would be met up to a pretest probability of 22%.PMID:33618160 | DOI:10.1016/j.breast.2021.02.002

Source: Breast - February 22, 2021 Category: Cancer & Oncology Authors: Barbara J Fueger Paola Clauser Panagiotis Kapetas Nina P ötsch Thomas H Helbich Pascal A T Baltzer Source Type: research