Long-term MRI-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsy results of 600 single-center procedures

ConclusionThe accuracy of MRI-guided VABB is high with a very low false negative rate of 0.3% on long-term follow-up. The value of short-term FU-MRI for every case after MRI-guided VABB may be questioned.Key Points• MRI-guided vacuum-assisted breast biopsies yield a large portion of clinically relevant lesions (9.82% B3, 0.17% B4, and 27.67% B5 lesions).• The false negative biopsy rate of MRI-guided VABB in this study with a mean follow-up time of 7.6 years was only 0.3%.• Performing a short-term follow-up MRI after a benign MRI-guided VABB concordant to the MRI appearance may be questioned.
Source: European Radiology - Category: Radiology Source Type: research